At 03:45 PM 11/6/2000, Fitzpatrick, Joe wrote:
>You can't, you have to turn it into a smaller number yourself. Use the
>modulo (%) operator (ex. <random> % 100 will return a value from 0-99).
I think modulo 100 won't retain a perfect uniform distribution since sysRandomMax + 1
is not a multiple of 100. Probably better would be to mask off the bits you don't need
(&& 0xFF in this case), then test if the value is within range (< 100 in this case),
and retry if not.
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Peter Epstein
Palm Inc. Developer
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