Re: How to generate a random number?
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:21:34PM +0800, Liu Tao wrote:
> I use random() in my program to generate a random number,
> but every time when I restart my program I get the same number.
> How can I get different random numbers each time?
Look at srandom() to seed the generator. You can seed it with the
current time, or with a couple of bytes from /dev/urandom, and so
forth.
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