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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Random integers
Message-ID: <9868@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 18 Mar 89 01:02:07 GMT
References: <2686@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2686@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> tree@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Tom Emerson) writes:
>int k;
>k = 10 * drand48();
>But to now avail; I get a number that looks similar to 2274665.

Probably your only problem here is that you allowed the compiler to
assume the default value type of int for the drand48() function; you
need to declare that it returns a double.