From: kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:14:17 -0400
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Subject: Re: random() and rand() question
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   Silly question... How would I go about getting a random number from say 1
   to a specified number?

just call random(), after using srandom() to seed the generator, modulo the
result and add one.  The following will give a number between 1 and 50 
inclusive:

long num;

#define MAX_RAND 50

srandom( time(NULL) );

num = random();
num = (num % MAX_RAND) + 1;

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Art S. Kagel, kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com

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