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From: jrb@petro.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: markov3, roll(n) patch
Message-ID: <132@petro.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 14:41:37 EST
Article-I.D.: petro.132
Posted: Fri Feb 20 14:41:37 1987
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Organization: G.M. Andreen & Associates, Inc. San Antonio, Texas
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Keywords: markov3, random

I had a couple of problems with the patches posted to net.sources for the
markov3.l program.  The patches stopped the core dumps but I found that the
bit-wise operations happening in the roll(n) function were causing WAY too
much duplication on the machine I am using (Tandy 6000, XENIX 3.01.02).  As
the roll(n) function is just supposed to return a random number between 0 and
n-1 I have applied the following fix using the % operator.  My markov3.l works
great if line 377 reads like:

	return(rand() % n);

This is a great program (although it's a memory piggy)... thanks!
-- 
Jon Boede				...!{ihnp4,akgua,gatech}!petro!jrb
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