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From:	xenophon AT atl DOT mindspring DOT com (Derek Owens)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Random numbers ...
Date:	Tue, 18 Jun 1996 14:15:02 GMT
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Ridge <ridge AT netam DOT net> wrote:

>Johan De Messemaeker wrote:
>>         int tmp;
>>         tmp = random(3);

>int tmp;
>tmp=random()%3;

or maybe try:

int tmp;
tmp = rand()%3;

But this is actually far from "random".  You might want to use srand()
to seed the random number generator with a value from the clock at the
beginning of the program.

I was also wondering... How fast is the something like rand()%3?

-Derek Owens

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