From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-30T03:22:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Generating random numbers?

Hi,

In message "Re: Generating random numbers?"
    on 03/07/30, "Orion Hunter" <orion2480@hotmail.com> writes:

|My problem is that I am getting the same "random number" repeated in 
|sequence.  For example, my code looks something like this
|
|100.times{
|    rand = Kernel.rand( 50 )
|    ... #do something with the random number
|}
|
|And I end up getting a sequence of random numbers like this:
|5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,89,89,89,89,89,2,2,2,78,78,78,78,44,44,44,44,44... etc

No one can answer for you unless you reveal "something with the random
number".  This is the first report of such randomness problem.
I suspect a bug in your code.

							matz.