Random number generator

[Stacey Campbell]

In article <940001 at hpavla.HP.COM>, gary at hpavla.HP.COM (Gary Jackoway) writes:
>I was trying to generate a random number bewteen 0 and maxlongint (i.e. 2^32)

Stop using rand().  The Unix version you are using has an excellent
pseudo-random number generator in the C library.  Check the man page
for drand48().  Long random numbers are returned by lrand48().
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