From: Orion Hunter <orion2480@...>
Date: 2003-07-30T05:07:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Generating random numbers?

>For example, this code (untested) I would expect
>to produce such repetition:
>
>   100.times do
>     Kernel.srand(Time.now.usec)
>     puts rand(100)
>   end

I completely understand why this would result in sequentially repeated 
numbers.  However, that is not what my code did... rather it called 
Kernel.srand( Time.now.usec ) once in a completely unrelated function 
(unrelated, but it was indeed called before the other function which was 
giving me the duplicates).

If I ever figure out why, I'll post it here.

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