std.random

[Charles]

Charles wrote:
> How do i get a number in the range -0.5 to 0.5 ?

To Clarify:

How do i get a random real in the range -0.5 to 0.5 using std.random ?

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Even using the traditional C method , using std.c.stdlib, using int.max 
for RAND_MAX scince its not defined is not working ->

const int RAND_MAX = int.max;
float x = (rand() / (RAND_MAX + 1.0)) - 0.5;

This always yeilds numbers of ( -0.4999XX , where XX is from 80 99 ).

This code works as expected with DMC.

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I have a workaround for now using the undocumented std.c.stdlib 
random(X) function with

return (random(50000) / 50000.0 ) - 0.5;

but would like to use D's std.random .

Charlie