I'm looking for a couple of function that works in a similar fashion of srand(unsigned int) and rand(void) but, with a variable range instead of a fixed one.  I don't like the script  srand(time(NULL)); random_number = rand() % (h_limit - l_limit) + l_limit;   for two reasons. The first one is that a number can be repeated. The second one is that, for large limits, the probability density function is not a costant.  I think that a good solution could be redefine RAND_MAX that is the upper limit of classical functions. Is this a good way to solve my problem or there might be problems? Have you a better way to proceed?
I need to generate random numbers within a specified interval, [max;min].  Also, the random numbers should be uniformly distributed over the interval, not located to a particular point.  Currenly I am generating as:  for(int i=0; i&lt;6; i++) {     DWORD random = rand()%(max-min+1) + min; }   From my tests, random numbers are generated around one point only.  Example min = 3604607; max = 7654607;   Random numbers generated:  3631594 3609293 3630000 3628441 3636376 3621404   From answers below: OK, RAND_MAX is 32767. I am on C++ Windows platform. Is there any other method to generate random numbers with a uniform distribution?
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