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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: v04i110: An amazingly small C-program
Summary: Patch #1 to mazemaze.c ;-)
Message-ID: <7605@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 6 Oct 88 04:17:49 GMT
References: <7656@boring.cwi.nl> <2456@mhres.mh.nl> <21617.1988Oct3.14:18:27@hammer.me.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX
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I changed the `27' on the bottom line to an `11'.  This reflects rand()'s
return numbers in the range 0 .. 32767.  The comparision of rand() against
6 << 27 never flew ...

I also added a call like srand (getpid ()).  This produced a more random
maze but didn't look as pretty.

- John.
-- 
John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US)                   HASA, "S" Division

      "Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same
                   entropy to create bugs instead?" -- Steve Elias