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Subject: Re: real random numbers
Date: 26 Mar 1998 16:52:15 GMT
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In article <35169C99 DOT 3B53 AT pobox DOT oleane DOT com>,
	Francois Charton <deef AT pobox DOT oleane DOT com> writes:

> generating random looking maps). If you want a "true" (non replicable) 
> random series, you may want to use srand(time()) as a seed. 

As some people already have pointed out, this only works when your
program runs at least for a single second.
Does somebody know how to take care of getting a different value each
time you run a program, no matter how often in a single second you start
it ?


Albert
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