numbering game: guess a value
It was a short contest in IRC. Write a numbering game.
Anyway, i have lost: The winner realized it in 12 lines.
committer: Markus Bröker <mbroeker@largo.homelinux.org>
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
TARGET += fts
TARGET += clplaner
TARGET += daemon
+TARGET += numbers
.SUFFIXES: .c .cc .asm
@@ -307,6 +308,10 @@
@echo Linking $<...
@$(CC) -Wall -O2 -g -ggdb $< -o $@
+numbers: numbers.o
+ @echo Linking $<...
+ @$(CC) -Wall -O2 -g -ggdb $< -o $@
+
.PHONY: beauty clean uninstall
clean:
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/numbers.c
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#define getrandom(max) (1+(int)((float)(max)*rand()/RAND_MAX+1.0))
+
+int main (void)
+{
+ while (1) {
+ int guess = -1, value = getrandom (100), count = 0;
+ do {
+ printf ("Enter a number: ");
+ if (scanf ("%d", &guess) < 0)
+ (void)getchar ();
+ else
+ count++;
+ if (guess != value)
+ printf ("X is %s than %d\n", (value > guess) ? "higher" : "lower", guess);
+ } while (value != guess);
+ printf ("SUCCESS: You got it after %d attempts\n", count);
+ }
+ return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}