From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: rand and random
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:08:42 +0200
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On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> rand() will give a number between 0 and 32,767.

Not true; please try to check your advice before posting.

`rand' returns a random integer between 0 and RAND_MAX.  The latter is
defined on stdlib.h, and is much larger than 32K.