From: "Klytu" <jazzyjeff34 AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: random number generator
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:10:02 -0500
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a = (rand() >> 4) % 6 + 1;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So simple and elegant! It had never occurred to me to use the shift operator
for this purpose! And you would not believe the way I labored and the
contortions I went
through to try to drop those "four extremely non-random low-order bits"! :-)