Adding Random Numbers

[SpecialEd]

I'm having trouble adding random numbers that I've generated using a for loop. So far my block of code looks:

cout<<"Please enter the number of dice you want to use:";
cin>>numberOFdice;
for(x=0; x<numberOFdice; x++)
cout<<(rand()%6)+1<< endl;


Now I need to add the random numbers that were generated. How do I do that?

[Banfa]

Following the way you have used rand()

int value;
int total = 0;
cout<<"Please enter the number of dice you want to use:";
cin>>numberOFdice;
for(x=0; x<numberOFdice; x++)
{
    value =(rand()%6)+1; 
    cout<<value<< endl;
    total += value;
}
 
cout<<total<< endl;
 

However quite often the low order bits of the value returned by rand() are not all that random and rand()%6 discards all but the low order bits so you may not be getting a very random sequence, see

http://c-faq.com/lib/randrange.html