How do you get a random number between 0 and 1? Visit members.xoom.com/ivanickgames Edited by - C++ Freak on 1/14/00 8:12:09 PM

Here''s a nice random number generator: http://www.flipcode.com/documents/random.txt

Have you tried the rand() function in Visual C++?

The functions you are looking for mainly would be rand() I believe.
rand() % 2 yields the result 1 and 0, and it requires the inclusion of .
However, to generate random numbers, you have to first provide the random number generator with a seed. Normally time(null) (the current time since a certain timeframe i can''t remember) is used as the seed, and requires the file time.h.
To set a seed, the following function, srand( time(null) ) is used.
Hope that helps

using rand() on its own generates the same random number every time the code is executed... to make sure the random number is different every time the code is exectued use something like this

#include stdlib.h
#include time.h

int num;
srand((unsigned)time(NULL));
num = rand()%2;

hope it helps. later.


Edited by - Chris F on 1/15/00 12:12:26 PM

Edited by - Chris F on 1/15/00 12:13:14 PM

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Edited by - C++ Freak on 1/15/00 2:14:23 PM

If you want floating point values between 0 and 1, then

float invRandMax = 1.0f/(float)RAND_MAX;
float randValue = ((float)rand())*invRandMax;

invRandMax only needs to be initialized once and can be used over and over when a new random value is needed. The only purpose of invRandMax is to replace divides with mults.

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