From: Sean Proctor <sproctor AT ccs DOT neu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Random Numbers?
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Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 21:14:14 GMT
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On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 15:23:08 GMT, Damian Yerrick
<Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p> wrote:


>  return rand() * (long long)range / (RAND_MAX + (long long)1) + min;
I think better would be:
return (rand() % (max - min + 1)) + min;
as you don't have to use long long ints and do multiplication and
division with them... etc.

Sean