From: Orion Hunter <orion2480@...>
Date: 2003-07-30T03:55:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Generating random numbers?

The only thing it was being used for was for grabbing the element at that 
index in an array.

I managed to figure out the problem though.  I was using Kernel.srand( 
Time.now.usec ) in a function that was executed previous to the one where I 
was having a problem.  Why this would result in duplicate sequential values, 
I'm not sure.  All I know is by taking srand out of a completely different 
function, it fixed the problem.

Matt


>From: matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
>Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
>To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: Re: Generating random numbers?
>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 03:22:22 +0900
>
>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.
>

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