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in reply to srand producing the same sequence of random numbers

The proper way to use srand is to ignore srand, unless you need a repeatable start point, or a cryptographically strong start point (in which case, you're probably not using rand() either). The random number generator is fairly seeded on each new run.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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