From:	"Jason Jones" <tekREMOVETHIS AT quickbasic DOT com>
References:	<7shlcr$bn2$1 AT canopus DOT cc DOT umanitoba DOT ca>
Subject:	Re: srand()
Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 1999 22:58:08 -0700
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Whenever I use srand() to seed the random number generator, I include time.h
and do this:

srand(time(0));

HTH,

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Jason "Tek" Jones
tekREMOVETHIS AT quickbasic DOT com


Randy wrote in message <7shlcr$bn2$1 AT canopus DOT cc DOT umanitoba DOT ca>...
>To use rand() one should call srand() with a seed...
>Is there a really simple way to get the time?  Would I have to include
>time.h?
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