- generating random numbers in c
- Posted by Johannes Veerkamp on February 6th, 2004
hello,
i'm am complete newbie to c and in need to write an programm which generates
random numbers from 1 to 10. can anybody help me out with the correct code?
thanks
- Posted by Paul E. Black on February 6th, 2004
"Johannes Veerkamp" <JVeerkamp@gmx.de> writes:
There are links to pseudo-random numbers generators at
http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/pseudo...NumberGen.html
-paul-
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Paul E. Black (p.black@acm.org)
- Posted by Thad Smith on February 6th, 2004
Johannes Veerkamp wrote:
The Standard C library function rand() generates pseudo-random integers
in the range 0 to RAND_MAX, where RAND_MAX is defined in stdlib.h.
Using your math to convert the results to the desired range.
Thad
- Posted by Michael J. Fromberger on February 7th, 2004
In article <c00ftv$oop$1@sunu789.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
"Johannes Veerkamp" <JVeerkamp@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi, Johannes,
The comp.lang.c FAQ list has some helpful tips on this subject:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q13.16.html
The whole FAQ is here, and is a useful read-through if you are learning
C:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html
Cheers,
-M
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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sting/ | Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA