>> I laughed. Good work. You loose ... zero cool points.
I used to say lol and rotfl to amuse myself and to annoy people but then stopped cause I heard someone who said it in earnest all the time and it sounded ... not good.
jbennet, I like the sound of (a).
Oh, also (when I atext message on my phone), I don't use shortened words. It annoys me too :/
>> Why should it? I dunno. I guess it's just because the thought of marrage for me at this time is nearly as far removed from me as something that's miles away.
My point about the flat earth was not that its roundhood has been known since the Greeks but that a major "wrong" was believed as a "right". OK. It wasn't the greatest analogy to pull on second thoughts. I'm not going to say what I think might be right or wrong ... but I'm certain that some things we think are right (or rightish :)), aren't.
I predict that a couple of decades from today when scientists has a good explanation of dark matter the religious lines will be altered again.
And I predict that in a couple of decades from now scientists will change their opinions too! It's not as though science is the church's specialty. Nor is religion the forte of scientists. I bet we all will change our opinions on every matter when more information on it is discovered. Who here can really say they know enough or have training enough to argue intelligibly over matters which are not understood? Nobody. Come on. We thought the earth was flat. Everyone speculates. Nobody is infallible - neither scientists or the church. Everyone makes mistakes. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone", as is said. Who knows. It is possible that many of our current theories are as flat as the earth of old.
I just choose the value 42 there. You could use any number and I *think* you should get the same numbers. So I reckon the time(NULL)'s were returning the same number each time.
The static type ... you should do some reading on it. It basically doesn't really go out of scope when the function ends. It kind of globalises local functions within a set scope, in a sense. So the boolean value (is_set), is there. Then I test it as to whether it's true or not. If it isn't I seed rand with one value and then set its value to true. This means for the rest of the duration of the program it's value is true which means it doesn't get seeded again with the same value.
Have you ever tried calling rand() without seeding it? If not use a loop and call it ten times. Note the results. Then execute your program again and look at the results. You should notice the same numbers coming up:
int main( void )
{
for ( int i=0; i<10; i++ )
{
printf ( "%d ", rand() );
}
return 0;
}
(also, could you use code tags? It makes code easier to read.)
I'm not certain, as I said, but I think you're calling the functions quite fast after one another, so perhaps they're getting seeded with the same value ...
int main( void )
{
srand( 42 );
for ( int i=0; i<10; i++ )
{
printf ( "%d ", rand() );
}
printf ( "\n" );
srand( 42 );
for ( int i=0; i<10; i++ )
{
printf ( "%d ", rand() );
}
return 0;
}
so it shoots out the same numbers. Remember it's not truly random. Just pseudo-random
I'm assuming you don't want to use the cosine function either :) You could create a table of results and read the values off that instead of using the sine function. Alternatively you could use exponentials and imaginary numbers ...
>> Haha, I literally LOL'd when I read that. :P Hang on. Did you say "LOL", or did you laugh. I really hope it was the latter. People who do the former are weird!
>> talk about lame come backs :P You're a lame comeback!
>> "yeah well ur mum!" I hate those ones. Some friends of mine brought it to such a level that no matter how well humoured the joke I have to punch someone very hard. Or at least I want to. Or I get out of the room and play loud music.
I think it's to do with where you seed rand. I'm not absolutely certain, but I think (note, this wasn't compiled so it mightn't), this should work -
int getCard(void)
{
int range;
int card;
static bool is_set;
if ( !is_set )
{
is_set = true;
srand(time(NULL));
}
else
is_set = false;
range = (10 - 1) + 1;
card = rand() % range + 1;
return card;
}
int first2(void)
{
int firstCard;
int secondCard;
int total;
firstCard = getCard();
secondCard = getCard();
total = firstCard + secondCard;
printf("\n\nYour first card is a %d, and your second card is a %d.\n", firstCard, secondCard);
printf("The total for the hand is %d.", total);
return total;
}
>> hmm.. I think that's a rather poor metaphor to use for human consciousness[...] >> Is it fair to say that a thread is composed of physical matter?[...] Thankfully I was being as blatantly sarcastic as I could be.
>> Caleb and I are probably going to get married in a couple years... Does that not scare you?
Unless time is a local variable which gets updated all the time I would expect that should be time()-t1 ... >> bebo.wonder_what_the_what_that_is(); Best not ask.
>> back to "Destiny" On a side track, you reckon threads on daniweb have destinies to become the best threads there are?
If you look at any thread they're made up of sentences, words, letters, characters, symbols, atoms, dark matter etc etc. In English whenever something happens there's always a 100% chance that someone will misinterpret the underlying meaning. This is unless someone interprets the meaning for people. Since each thread is made up from atoms then everything that happens inside them is predetermined by the font, language and the speed at which someone types out the thread or post. Now, think of the brain of the thread - it is also made up out of chemicals, and atoms and dark matter. Everything it thinks, everything it instantiates, everything is is determined by the chemicals and the chemical reactions that happen. Every day. Every moment. Every semi-planck-second. It's all cause and effect.
Do we really have the power to put forward our own thoughts to the threads without influence? Or does the timing of the thread predetermine out replies? Just an idea I had is all. Think it's possible?
>> haha.. he must have left to write the code That's not completely inaccurate. Just happened to open my IDE and happened to have my fingers in the code position.
>> I was asking Twomers. Small t if you please -- the T looks very very wrong in my eyes for some reason. I really don't know why. Odd, eh? I appreciate the capitalisation though. Thanks. But do you not agree that it makes my alias look completely lobsided?
>> Is your work IT related? I guess it could be ... I'm sure I could. But when you consider that most of my posts are in the coffee shop ... I'm sure I could do a few posts a day. I'll see.
>> He never mentioned where he works.. Can't talk about it. Top secret you see. Plus, you might come kidnap me or something. Never know what ye internet people will do.
>> I love the invention of Beer in Ireland on Family Guy. Ha. Yeah. That was funny alright. Confused archaeologists for generations. It's only recently, with FG's help, that the past has been brought to life. Amazing, eh?
>> ive only ever been to Northern Ireland I've never been there really. Well, I passed through it, but never stayed there. Meh. Probably nothing special ... Good accent though.
