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

[Dwivedi Ajay kumar <ajayd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:

I did not find any nuber greater than 24 when executed this with a
printf;s etc
	Please send the complete code.
The modifications made by me for printing were....

main()
{
> 
> int num_of_arts;
> int display_article_number;
> int * article_displayed;	/* Flags stored here */
> 
> 
> num_of_arts = 24;
> 
> /* Make enough space to store the flags */
> article_displayed = (int *) calloc(num_of_arts, sizeof(int));
> 
> 
> 
> display_article_number = 1 + (int) (((float) num_of_arts) * random() /
> (RAND_MAX+1.0));
>

printf("%d\n",display_article_number); 

> while (*(article_displayed+display_article_number-1) == 1) {
//replaced this by
while (1) {// I think there is some code before this line in yr orig script

>     display_article_number = 1 + (int) (((float) num_of_arts) * random() /
> (RAND_MAX+1.0));
another printf
> }
> 
> 
> 
> I expect this piece of code to generate a random number between 1 and 24. 
In my case it did.

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