Any standard APL interpreter has the roll operator, which is actually
an RNG. Just say ?16 or something like that.
At 3:02 +0000 06/10/2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What would be the simplest and solid way to generate random numbers from
>1 to 16 only?
>
>I don't have any compilers or languages handy except for an APL
>interpreter that's quite old but still powerful and BASIC that comes with
>the DOS operating system.
>
>I gather there must be some code to do a small pseudo-random number
>generator somewhere?
>
>Thanks,
>Adam Sundor
>
>
>
>
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