mz.c

[Tim Smith]

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In article <1125 at cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> trent at cit-vax.UUCP (Ray Trent) writes:
>
>I suppose this works...but isn't:
>
>     #define oneof(n)    (rand() % (n) + 1)
>
>more intuitive and efficient?

Yes, but it also doesn't work!  If n is not a divisor of 32768, the
distribution will be off.  For example, if n is 24000, then numbers
from 1 to 8000 will be given twice as often as numbers from 9000 to 24000.

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