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- From: Markus Becker <becker@zess.uni-siegen.de>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Random numbers in C++
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 14:50:18 +0100
- Organization: ZESS, Uni-GH-Siegen
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- Fabien Bergeret wrote:
- > > How do you make a random number in C++. I'm not familiar with C, so if it's
- > a C
- > > function that will help a lot also. Thanks!!
- >
- > a = srand()%the_number;
-
- But that will NOT result in uniformly distributed random
- numbers!
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