True provided the implmentation your using has a linear-congruential generator (which in hindsight, it probably is, so you're right about that). Not necessarily true for other types of PRNGs, though.
The following usually works well for the 1...n range:
1 + (int)(n * rand() / (RAND_MAX + 1.0));
The word rap as it applies to music is the result of a peculiar phonological rule which has stripped the word of its initial voiceless velar stop.
It doesn't look like another method to me. It looks like the same method. I am obviously missing something.Originally posted by Cat
Zach, Stoustrup says exactly the opposite in The C++ Programming Language, 22.7. He recommends another method:
int( (double(rand()) / RAND_MAX) * n)
for numbers from 0 to n-1. Note this does have a miniscule but nonzero chance (0.00000005% for 31 bits of randomness) of returning n itself, so a serious application would have to take this into account.
