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From: Butler Owen scm2211 <s9708172 AT tiger DOT vut DOT edu DOT au>
Subject: Re: Random function gives me the same numbers!
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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Nicolas Blais wrote:

> Hi, the function below seams to always give me the same set of numbers
> in R_C everytime I run it, can it be fixed?
> 
> srandom(clock()/CLOCKS_PER_SEC);

AFAIK, clock() returns the number of clocks/ticks/whatever since the
program was invoked.  This would be the same every run. You would want to
use time(NULL); instead, as this
will give you the number of seconds since 1 jan 1970 or something.  Your
not likely to get the same number twice though.

Owen Butler

> int R_C = random() / (RAND_MAX / 255 + 1);
> 
> Thank you,
> Nicolas Blais
> 
> 
>