type casting?

[leon77]

Hey everyone, this looks silly, however
i haven't made it work yet. Just trying to pull
some random numbers between $b & $c.

example.... 1.26, 1.89

<?php

$b = 1.01;
$c = 1.99;
$d = rand($b, $c);

$d = (double) $d;

echo $d;

?>

Apparently i'm missing something.
any help highly appreciated

thanks

.:leon:.

[ednark]

1) [man]rand/man states that it returns an integer... so i have a feeling all your doubles are being converted to an integer upon return....

2) rand sucks sucks sucks... (at least the windows XP, 4.2.3php version) don't use it... at least user [man]mt_rand/man

better yet: do a search on google for
"knuth random numbers"

the great god knuth will give you a good algorithm to generate random numbers