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From: ccel@chance.uucp (CCEL)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Random number generator
Keywords: random maxint
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Date: 20 Dec 89 22:41:07 GMT
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Organization: MITRE-McLean Software Engineering Laboratory
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Greetings 

I was trying to generate a random number bewteen 0 and maxlongint (i.e. 2^32)
on my machine (80386 with Interactive). The rand() function that I have
returns a psuedo-random number between 0 and MAXINT (which in this case
is 32768). I thought about generating two random numbers and multiplying
them together, but I realized that would produce a bell-curve-shaped
distrubution (the numbers in the middle would be more likely to occur).

Does anyone have any ideas or any code that generates random numbers,
or anyplace that I can check to find such code?

               Randy Tidd
rtidd@mwsun.mitre.org
Randy Tidd                   MITRE-McLean CCEL Lab
rtidd@mitre.arpa             ccel%community-chest@gateway.mitre.org
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