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  3. April 2007

Re: Floating point conversion

This is all you need if your range is between 1 and some other positive integer. If you need a different minimum, you'll need to throw away numbers lower than any returned by this algorithm and generate a new
one.

I'm not sure what you mean by that last sentence. Generate a new algorithm? Generate numbers until I get one in the range I want?

Barbara answered better than I did. I meant that this simple ((rnd*MAX)+1) couldn't be changed to ((rnd*MAX)+n) to change the lowest value to n.

Steve Park has some algorithms posted at http://www.cs.wm.edu/~va/software/park/park.html

--buck

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