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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: help with random number
Date: 2000/11/13
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In article <5ltu0to0o3mt8c9liev26229n9mnhi0rvu@4ax.com>,
  mountainman wrote:
>. Like a card game I need it to pull an Ace of Spades only
> once till the game is over.  Any help would be very
> appreciated.


This is a very standard beginning programming assignment
(shuffling a deck of cards).

Don't look for a built in random number generator to do this,
that's not the point of the excercise.

Instead, think about how you could use perfect coin tosses
to shuffle a deck, or think about how, when there are 37
cards left, you choose a random one of the cards left.



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