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From: paquette@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: rand on 4d broken
Keywords: Docs are wrong
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Date: 23 Jun 89 21:20:59 GMT
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  Just to save some people some headaches.. The docs for 'rand'
 on the 4d (and I suspect that the 3000 series also have this
 problem) are WRONG!!
    They state that rand returns a number between 0 and (2^15)-1.
 Well rand returns a number between 0 and 32767. (Which
 I guess is right.. but the numbers do not get above 32767..)
   This caused me some probs on porting some software from the Sun.

     Trev

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