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echo: os2prog
to: Sean Price
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1996-05-21 21:26:32
subject: Random Seed

SP>
  > Does anyone have code for a random seed that'll make a program
  > generate a different random number each time it's run?
SP>

  srand(time(0)) is the convention.

  Note that you may want to disable this during testing, as one of the
  benefits of rand() is that it always generates the same sequence of
  random numbers, making test cases reproducible.

  > JdeBP <
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