Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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> Rand:
>
>   When a value is returned from the rand function is there a range
> it is confined to i.e. 0 - 1,  .1 - 10, or ?
>
> Is the value returned always a fraction of 1, or less than 100 or can be
> anything up to and including 20 billion.

According to the docs:
"The numbers are uniformly distributed, and have values between 0.0 and 1.0,
inclusively."

But I guess with a little massaging of the numbers, you can make it come out
to most any range.

Hope that helps,
Sorry I couldn't help (at least not immediately) with the others.
Darcy
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