Re: problems when using gsl_ran_ugaussian

[Andrea Fortini <a dot fortini at phys dot uu dot nl>]

well,

you have to print a double, not a long int.
try  
printf("%f \n",a) ; 
and  
printf("%f\n",gsl_ran_ugaussian_pdf(1.5)) ;

and you'll get the correct values.

by

af

On Monday 19 May 2003 15:16, Yves Caniou wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Executing this code :
>
> include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <gsl/gsl_statistics.h>
>
> int main(int argc,char** argv)
> {
>   double a ;
>
>   a=gsl_ran_ugaussian_pdf(1.5) ;
>   printf("%ld\n",a) ;
>   printf("%ld\n",gsl_ran_ugaussian_pdf(1.5)) ;
>   a=gsl_ran_ugaussian_pdf(1.5) ;
>   printf("%ld\n",a) ;
> }
>
> gives the results 0 32 0 on one of my computer
> and 0 12576 0 on the second one...
> Still, I don't understand these results...
> Thanks.
>
> .Yves.
>
> -: Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard drive? :-

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