Re: How to make a random number

["Brendan O'Dea" <bod@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 05:54:49PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
>
>int main ()
>{
>	srand (time (0));
>/* rest of program would be here */
>}

variants such as:

    pid_t pid = getpid;
    srand(time(0) ^ (pid + pid << 15));

are also possible and principally used to avoid repetitive output when
the program may be invoked repeatedly over a short space of time.

Note that such contortions are obviously still deterministic.

Regards,
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Brendan O'Dea                                        bod@compusol.com.au
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