From: "Trent and Zacc" <Xzzdengla AT dingo DOT cc DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Random Numbers
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 23:34:04 +1000
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Warren Smith wrote in article <01bc9a61$57701640$204678c7 AT warren1>...

>How can I get a truly random number (w/o the same sequence of numbers
>appearing over and over)?
>

Ahh...the billion dolar question...

Simply, you can't AFAIK....

Are you seeding the randomiser?  This starts you at a different point in
the sequence which makes it more difficult to tell that the numbers
are not really entirely random.

If you aren't try using:  srand( time( NULL) )

This will give a fairly good random sequence of numbers.