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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:03:50 -0400
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Subject: Re: Random Number Generator
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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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