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From: aaronf@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Aaron Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: rand() within a range.
Message-ID: <1230001@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 90 23:50:49 GMT
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sheoak.bcae.oz (David Thiele) /  4:20 pm  Dec  3, 1990 /
> Is there a way to generate random numbers within a certain range in 
> Lattice C??. Ive done it with the following code but it's not very
> elegant (or fast!),

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Simply taking

	rand() % range

or something similar should give you what you want.  This will be fast and
about as "random" as the code you are currently using.