From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-07-30T04:35:35+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.


calling srand() more than once doesn't make your numbers "more random".