Random Number Generator

[Harold Hunt]

Beginning CS student?  Thought so :)

Let me teach you how to debug your program:
1) Change your line that calls rand () to:
	input1 = rand ();
2) Notice that random numbers are now generated.
3) Have your program print out the value of RAND_MAX:
	  printf ("RAND_MAX: %d\n", RAND_MAX);
4) Calculate the result, in integer math, when
	dividing any integer smaller than RAND_MAX by
	RAND_MAX.  (Hint: the answer is zero)
5) Realize that what you really wanted was something like:
	// Get random numbers from 0 and 9, inclusive
	input1 = rand () % 10;

	// Get random numbers from 1 and 10, inclusive
	input1 = 1 + rand () % 10;

That was your freebie, from now on, ask general programming questions to a
list that is more suited to answering such questions; or, better yet, read
some programming books :)

Harold


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