From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:41b92073.3609980{at}216.144.1.254...
> "Geo"  wrote in message
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> > int n = (rand()/32767)*9999999999999
> >
> > That shouldn't generate a cpu error, the error would come when it goes
to
> > store a multibyte value in a single byte location (or maybe at compile
> > time?)
>
> I don't follow your meaning. If you intend that the
"9999999999999" is too
> large for an int, the compiler would assume it is a long int. If the value
> is too large for a long int,

What I was trying to say (and I haven't tested this yet due to lack of
time) is that the computer will evaluate the right side of the above
equation using 32 bits not 8 bits. If that's true then

int n = (rand()/MAX_RAND)*9999

should come out as

int n = (0.123)*9999

or something greater than 1 and so int n should come out to something other
than zero, no? If not then this would be very limiting for doing anything
using rand() and an int value since (rand()*9999)/MAX_RAND could also
evaluate to something that blows int limits (for example if rand() is
32000).

Geo.

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