Re: Why am I not getting the results I expect...

["Sharad Joshi" <sharad.joshi@xxxxxxxxx>]

+ display_article_number = 1 + (int) (((float) num_of_arts) * random() /
+ (RAND_MAX+1.0));

[snip]

+ 
+ I expect this piece of code to generate a random number between 1 and 24. 
+ But it also generates number > 24.  What am I doing wrong?  I got the algo
+ to generate a random number between 1 and n from the manpage for rand()
+ (not random()).

Does not seem to be the case here. The outpt is as expected. BTW, what is
the processor type? Is it because of the same "lower-order bits" thing as
mentioned in rand man page (arch dependence... huh).

Sharad.