Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:5134 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 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4q6dkj$1j6s@mule1.mindspring.com> References: <4q3o4g$b6o AT infoserv DOT rug DOT ac DOT be> <31C607D9 DOT 2E67 AT netam DOT net> Reply-To: xenophon AT atl DOT mindspring DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-104-192.dialup.mindspring.com To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Ridge 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