Re: drand48() (and erand48) returns only zeros - SOLVED

Thanks Igor, Dave and Teun! I was missing the call to srand48(0); that "unlocked" both drand48 and erand48. My code (at least the random number part) is now working. In case anyone else is trying to do something similar a working snippet is below. Thanks to everybody who took time to help! Rober

Re: drand48() (and erand48) returns only zeros

Thanks for the prompt reply! At 12:55 PM 11/12/2004 -0500, you wrote: >If you're using C++, why use stdio functions? The program has some modules from an older C program and some from a C++ program. I just hadn't converted all of the code. I left the headers in because in my finished program I'd

drand48() (and erand48) returns only zeros

drand48 and erand48 return only 0.0 no matter how many times I call them. The code works fine on the Linux computers at school, and the compiler does not report any errors or warnings. The mailinglist archives seem to have cases where these functions are missing entirely or return errors, but that