From: Damian Yerrick <DELCAPSyerricde AT pineight DOT 8mSOFTWARE DOT com>
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Subject: Re: rand and random
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Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 06:51:05 GMT
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On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:08:42 +0200,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> 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.

I thought some C standard defined rand() as

#define RAND_MAX 0x7fff
int rand(void)
{
  mySeed = (mySeed * 1103515245) + 12345;
  return (mySeed & 0x7fff0000) >> 16;
}

Maybe I misunderstood the standard, or maybe the translation (into
plain English) was wrong... :-(

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