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From: ping@cubmol.BIO.COLUMBIA.EDU (Shiping Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: random numbers
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Date: 21 Aug 89 15:23:47 GMT
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Reply-To: ping@cubmol.UUCP (Shiping Zhang)
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In article <876.24EFA953@busker.FIDONET.ORG> Rik.Stevans@f226.n105.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Rik Stevans) writes:
>Does anyone have a good random number generator for 'c'?  i need a 
>function which will return an integer less than zero (just like rnd 
>in basic) and be fairly random.  the one i wrote does ok but is very 
>unweildly as i cast from double back to int to get the numbers i need. 
>thanks, rik s...
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There are functions that generate random integers in the C standard
library. Take a look at your manual.


-ping