From: "Jonas Kölker" <Jonaskoelker AT yahoo DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Randomness - good enough for dice games?
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 00:25:26 +0200
Organization: Customer at Telia Danmark (http://www.telia.dk)
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Hi there!
I'm needing some real good and very random functions, and I've tried the
random(), but it just won't be random - always throws up the same result:

/* !!!not compilable!!! */
printf("%d",random()%100); //this always outputs 53 or something


This makes me wonder - does random() need some initialization to be random -
as srand(clock()) for rand() - or won't it work proper on my machine?