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From: ads@gateway.mitre.org (Alexas D. Skucas)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Random number generation
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.151610.1984@linus.mitre.org>
Date: 11 Mar 91 15:16:10 GMT
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  Here is a C++ problem that is really giving me
headaches.  I am trying to generate a random number
between 0 and 1.  The rand function returns a huge
number (i.e 3.75658e+08) which I can't seem to be
able to deal with.  I am running the Sun CC compiler.

ANY help would be extremely appreciated. Thanks.

Alex
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