Re: Positive random number

pete wrote:

The return value of rand isn't guaranteed to be positive.

What does "positive" mean? Is x positive if and only if x > 0?
Does that mean that 0 is neither positive nor negative?

For the record, the rand function computes a sequence of
pseudo-random integers in the range 0 to RAND_MAX.
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