From: "DeHackEd" <notgiven AT out DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
References: <3685970D DOT 271BE4C6 AT market DOT forsale>
Subject: Re: getting a ranged random number, how?
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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 21:22:52 -0500
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A common practice is to do this:

int num = rand() % max;

Num now contains a number between 0 and (max - 1). If max is 10, it holds from 0
to 9. Does this help?


oranges <oranges AT market DOT forsale> wrote in message
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>in turboc, there is a "max" argument in random() ..
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