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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:13:08 -0400
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Random Number Generator
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At 01:37 PM 4/30/2001, you wrote:
>Hi!, I'm writing a program using the random number genrator rand() defined in <stdlib.h>.  I've written the following program to test it: 
>
>
>
>void main()
>{
>   int input1, i;
>
>   srand(time(NULL));
>   
>   for (i=0; i<20 ; i++)
>     {
>       input1 = rand() * 10 / (RAND_MAX + 1);
>       printf("random numbers %i\n",input1);
>
>     }
>} 
>
>
>BUT, the results I get are all zeros.  Is there something wrong with the gcc compiler provided by cygwin, because I've tested this program at university, and it outputs random numbers correctly.
>
>Please Help!
>
>Thank You!



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