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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How do I get random #s?
Message-ID: <767@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 89 18:51:21 GMT
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Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <16034@tiger.oxy.edu> bagpiper@oxy.edu (Michael Paul Hunter) writes:
>In article <9570@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>>In article <19415@dhw68k.cts.com> tsource@dhw68k.cts.com (Aryeh Friedman) writes:
>>>	 I am new to C and I want to know how to get random numbers returned.

>>ANSI C requires rand() to be provided, but probably your best bet for
>>the time being is to provide your own generator.  For example:

>How about a quick hack at a random number generator that is
>kindof-fairly uniorm in [0, 1].  My quick answer is to scale
>rand...but that doesn't seem to be the best quick hack answer
>to me.

    rand() s*cks (at least in VMS C, I don't know about others),
    I always MTH$RANDOM() rather than rand() on VMS systems.

    "The Art of Computer Programming", Vol II, Chap 3 should be
    of use.

	
	John Hascall