From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: random number?
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 19:11:36 +0000
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Robert Debeljakovic wrote:
> 
> I typed this one in, and the following happened:
> How many dice? 1
> How many sides 10
> The result is -1892526920
> 
> That must have been one helluva roll eh?
> 
> Anyone know why I get this answer?
> I have checked the code? Its fine! (what little there is!)

No, it isn't.  Please allow me to blush with humiliation, for I made a
silly mistake.  Observe the following lines:

    printf( "How many dice?  " );
    scanf( "%d", n );
    printf( "How many sides?  " );
    scanf( "%d", s );

Note the arguments to scanf().  Put ampersands before n and s (&n, &s),
and the program will work fine.

When you compile with '-Wall', you catch these sorts of things.  Sorry. 
;)

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