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From: savage@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Metallica Rules)
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Subject: Re: Trying to generate random random numbers!
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.213226.5657@colorado.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 91 21:32:26 GMT
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In article <1991Mar18.054012.24970@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In article <7161@bgsuvax.UUCP>, sapienza@bgsuvax.UUCP (Michael A. Sapienza) writes:
>|> I could use some help in generating random numbers.  The problem I am having
>|> is that I get the same set of numbers each time that I run the program.  I
>|> have tried using srandom (seed) and entering the seed from the keyboard,
>|> but this also returns the same random number.  Any help would be greatly
>|> appreciated!
>

I have encountered the problem before, and my soulution to it has been to
seed the generator with a diriviative of the seconds in the clock/time.
Because each of the seconds in the time keep increasing from I think 1 Jan 1970.
So each seed will be different then the others, and you will always or should
get a different rand each time you run it.

Hope this helps...
Chuck
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