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From: bruno@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bruno Melli)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: drand48
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Date: 23 Mar 90 00:44:45 GMT
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> when we assign the result of the drand48 function to a variable and
> print it afterwards, the value printed is not between 0 and 1.
> But, when we instead print the result of drand48 directly, the result is
> between 0 and 1.

make sure you have a line like

double drand48();

in your definitions before you call the function. 

Unless told otherwise the compiler assumes that drand48() returns an int.

bruno.