From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6bc361dc425f4265 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: David Muhammad Subject: Random Number problems Date: 1997/09/30 Message-ID: <3431B598.41C6@activist.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 276915339 References: <60q1hm$8oq$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> Organization: @Activist Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >I am trying to write a function that will use a Random Number Generator and then return a random value between 1 and 52. I have written the Random Number Generator function but how do I tell the compiler to select a number between 1 and 52. a) declare a subtype subtype pseudorand is range 1..52 b) Call my randomnumber from function Rand_Num c) NOw somehow convert some "Number" to a range between 1 and 52. I am stuck ??