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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: v07i018:  poker - five card draw poker, Part01/02
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Date: 14 Jul 89 19:42:47 GMT
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Any program with a formula like

	((rand()%100 < 30) ? 10:11);

is going to behave oddly.  The low order bits of the numbers returned
by rand() are not "random" in the sense that gamesters mean.  Either
use random() instead, or use something like

	(((double)rand()/2147483648.0 < 0.30) ? 10:11);

so that you don't discard the significant bits.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]