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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Lightspeed C bug?
Message-ID: <8712242049.AA01511@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 24 Dec 87 20:49:51 GMT
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>I would expect that your best (hack) answer is to use:
>	x = Random()&7;
>or
>	x = Random()&~(-1) % N;
>		for randoms on 0..N-1.

	I think you meant to say (16 bit ints):

	x = (Random()&0x7FFF) % N

	As ~(-1) == 0

				-Matt