C Pointers Experiment (So bad don't use), C (gcc)

C Pointers Experiment (So bad don't use)

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

/*
Keep in mind I have no clue what I'm doing lol
I probably look so stupid rn lmaooooo

-----DO NOT USE THIS FOR A RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR!!!!------

NOTES:
        I tried "clearing" the seed variable to generate a new address but from doing some intense
        research, baseically going on stack overflow and some other forums, there seemed to be no
        solution to this problem, for the c language at least.o
        EDIT: I may have come up with a solution, I'll try it out later though.
    
        Aside from the first major problem, numbers seem to repeat quite a lot. However, this
        seems to become less of an issue with higher prime numbers. I will need to experiment a
        bit more.
        
        This is my first time experimenting with pointers so I decided to make a random number
        generator just to understand how pointers work. I did not expect to face this many
        problems, like usual when I'm learning something new, with creating a random number
        generator.
        
    OBSERVATIONS:
        When viewing the adress number, it could always divide into 4. My solution was to divide
        by a prime number, as those will always have remainders when you divide them, I think...
*/

int random(int x, int y){
    unsigned int prime_number = 167; // Higher number = better results?
    int randNumber = 0; // Created a var just to visualize this better
    int seed = 1; // Creating a variable to generate a new ptr address
    int *aptr = &seed; // Gets the address of "seed" in memory (this is really the seed)
    
    randNumber = x + (abs(aptr)/prime_number)%y;
    // dividing by a prime number (may help with generating a more percise rnd number???)
    return randNumber;
}

int main(){
    for (int i = 0; i <= 10; i++){
        printf("%d\n", random(0, 100 + i)) ; // My hacky solution to generate more rnd numbers
    }
}


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