From: Ryan Blazecka <eblazecka AT bc DOT sympatico DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: rand() or random()
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 23:20:44 -0800
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Mark Phillips wrote:
> Just for the heck of it, say I want to get a random number from 0 to
> 19.  rand() and random() appear to return numbers from 0 to 2^31.  I
> could always do rand() * 20 / 2^31 but there must be a better way.

How about rand() % 19?   :)

(BTW, you should use random() instead of rand(), its numbers are more
"random")

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