From: bigphil AT solutions DOT mb DOT ca (Mark Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: rand() or random() Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 07:02:49 GMT Organization: MBnet - Manitoba's Connection To The Internet Lines: 10 Message-ID: <63mh1a$9r4$1@postern.mbnet.mb.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.112.6.182 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk 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. right? TIA mark phillips