I observed that rand()
library function when it is called just once within a loop, it almost always produces positive numbers.
for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
printf("%d\n", rand());
}
But when I add two rand()
calls, the numbers generated now have more negative numbers.
for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
printf("%d = %d\n", rand(), (rand() + rand()));
}
Can someone explain why I am seeing negative numbers in the second case?
PS: I initialize the seed before the loop as srand(time(NULL))
.