From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Random Numbers
Date: 27 Jul 1997 05:15:54 GMT
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"Warren Smith" (gsmith AT netins DOT net) writes:
> How can I get a truly random number (w/o the same sequence of numbers
> appearing over and over)?

Seed the random generator using the system clock. The seeding functions
are srand for rand and srandom for random. There are a bunch of clock
functions, of which any that return integers and not structs should do,
for instance rawclock.

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