From: Thomas Harte <T DOT Harte AT btinternet DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: srand()
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:59:11 +0100
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> As an aside, I built this program with lcc-Win32 (I don't have DJGPP
> installed right now :), then ran it 645 times and it actually produced
> numbers between ~28,000 and ~30,000 so it's not the best way to get
> random numbers, unless you modify the result with a bit more math.

	You do realise that 'time' only returns the time accurate to the second, and
so, if your 645 runs were consecutive, this wasn't a very good test?

		-Thomas