Post Office!~/sentmail <fjr6b@cms.mail.virginia.edu> writes:

> On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Berke Durak wrote:
> 
> Pardon me, I wasn't clear.  Since incr and mult are assumed to be
> positive, seed should always be positive.  Therefore a mod of C by a
> positive number should always be positive.  The problems arise like the
> following:
> 
> # seeded#raw;;
> - : float = -0.011235290207
> # seeded#getseed;;
> - : int = 12063801
> # float ( seeded#getseed );;
> - : float = 12063801
> # float ( seeded#getseed ) /. float( 1073741824 );;
> - : float = -0.011235290207
> # float (1073741824);;
> - : float = -1073741824

# max_int;;
- : int = 1073741823

so your int is bigger than max_int, and caml silently transform it in 
-1073741824 (there should be a warning)
float ( seeded#getseed ) /. 1073741824.0
should work.

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Rémi Vanicat
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