I'm looking for a way to large random numbers beyond the limit of rand(). I have an idea on how I can do this but was wondering if C++ by chance had anything to help me out built in or if someone how found a convenient way to do this.

Well the easy thing to do would be to add two rand()'s and modulus them.. The best and most practical thing to do would be to write your own png, or find one meant for larger numbers on the internet; google it. BlueRaja.admin@gmail.com

Use the GMP library. I don't know if it's ported/portable to Windows or not but it's the best there is (pari/gp uses it). The Mandrake distro already has it but here's the website anyway: http://www.swox.com/gmp/ Getting random numbers out of GMP isn't too difficult but I found the documentation can be quite confusing so here's a natural number example which uses the high quality entropy pool in /dev/random and is the only use I've ever made of GMP's random number facilities anyway :)

Sorry about the awful code - it's from among my earliest attempts in C. I've just removed a couple of obvious stupidities but there are probably others.