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Re: Random Number Generator
- To: HRahman10 at aol dot com
- Subject: Re: Random Number Generator
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:03:50 -0400
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <32.143dcec3.281efce6@aol.com>
Sorry, fails on Linux also. After fixing the bugs in your program
(missing stdio.h and stdlib.h) gcc complains about this:
r.c: In function `main':
r.c:11: warning: integer overflow in expression
rand() may return values close to the maximum allowable integer.
Multiplying them by 10 may cause overflow. And, RAND_MAX+1 may not be
a valid integer (on Linux, RAND_MAX is INT_MAX, so RAND_MAX+1 is a
very negative number).
In short, your logic is flawed and the fact that it works "at
university" is pure coincidence.
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