From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-11-29T03:46:47+09:00
Subject: Re: rand random. You've got to be kidding

On Nov 28, 2006, at 0951 , Smgspices@aol.com wrote:

> Surely it must be possible to initialize rand with current date and  
> time.
> Documents seem to indicate this is done with rand(0) or srand with  
> no value. I
> have tried both methods and I get the same tired old sequence of  
> numbers. I
> would write my own random number generator except I don't know how  
> to get a
> numeric value out of Time.

On windows I think there is no way to seed from /dev/urandom, so you  
get seeded by some default value.  Instead the seed is composed of  
the current time in seconds and microseconds and the pid.

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