MK>   The rand() function will only generate to 5 or 6 decimal
MK>   places I believe; whereas, the above formula will
MK>   generate to 10.  Which means that it will do a better job
MK>   of generating large numbers.
   rand() returns an integer value, not a floating point.
   The QB and QBasic RND function returns floating point.
/* maximum value that can be returned by the rand function. */
#define RAND_MAX 0x7fff
   The above is from a STDLIB.H file for a C compiler.
   As you can see, rand() returns a value from 0 to 32767 in
   this particular implementation. Here is another:
#define RAND_MAX    32767
   And another:
#define RAND_MAX    32767
   These are all 16-bit compilers, of course, but my VC++5.0
   also gives a maximum value of 0x7fff.

> ] I am Spam of Borg... Ooh! That's redundant, isn't it!??.....

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