Re: random ints on symmetric interval
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Re: random ints on symmetric interval         

Group: comp.lang.fortran · Group Profile
Author: glen herrmannsfeldt
Date: Sep 17, 2008 02:25

Ron Ford wrote:
(snip, I wrote)
>>As far as the original question, I believe it is
>>one fourth, not one eighth.
(snip)
> How did we miss half of the cases?
(snip)
> %%- INT_MAX is 7. UB is invoked when the values are:
> %%-
> %%- 7 and any of -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8
> %%- 6 and any of -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8
> %%- 5 and any of -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8
> %%- 4 and any of -4, -5, -6, -7, -8
> %%- 3 and any of -5, -6, -7, -8
> %%- 2 and any of -6, -7, -8
> %%- 1 and any of -7, -8
> %%- 0 and -8

The other half are negative numbers minus positive numbers,
with the result below -8.

-- glen
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