rand on 4d broken
Trevor Paquette
paquette at cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Sat Jun 24 07:20:59 AEST 1989
Just to save some people some headaches.. The docs for 'rand'
on the 4d (and I suspect that the 3000 series also have this
problem) are WRONG!!
They state that rand returns a number between 0 and (2^15)-1.
Well rand returns a number between 0 and 32767. (Which
I guess is right.. but the numbers do not get above 32767..)
This caused me some probs on porting some software from the Sun.
Trev
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