From: "Pavlos" <trash24379 AT usa DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Randomness - good enough for dice games?
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 02:13:02 +0300
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Jonas Kölker wrote in message <7l3k1u$2f1$1 AT news101 DOT telia DOT com>...
>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?
>
>
For random(), you have to use srandom() as you use srand() for rand().