From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-30T04:40:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Generating random numbers?

Hello,

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

|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.

You don't need to call srand unless you want to reproduce random
number sequence.  Besides, using time fraction as a random seed is
generally a bad idea.

							matz.