From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How to limit a random() with DJGPP ?
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 22:07:37 -0500
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Pieter van Ginkel wrote:
> 
> #define Random(x) (random() % x)
> and then just use Random. This works quite well. The only thing with this is
> that you can't get random numbers bigger that MAXINT. I think rand() does
> this but you should find that out yourself.

What's wrong with MAXINT?  It is 2^32 in a 32-bit program.  If you're
really nuts about high-power integer numbers, write your own RNG that
uses a long long seed instead of int.

> If you want to have a random function that gives a floatingpoint result,
> usae something like this.
> 
> #define FPRandom() (random() / (double)MAXINT)

This is not a really good solution because its granularity will still be
limited to the range of MAXINT.  For really good random floating point
values, a custom RNG is almost mandatory.

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