ActivePerl on Windows: 

>perl -wle"for (12892579, 12581113, 11469568) { srand($_); print rand(
+10) for 1..3; print ''; }"
8.4423828125
8.1201171875
0.3485107421875

8.04290771484375
1.88720703125
7.26837158203125

0.30426025390625
3.8690185546875
3.51715087890625

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Linux: 

$ perl -wle'for (12892579, 12581113, 11469568) { srand($_); print rand
+(10) for 1..3; print ""; }'
7.28681520399736
9.72810111099051
8.4866120390701

4.16810684212582
9.99273993631022
1.63078077641455

4.64624992645444
9.91696268643381
6.90260832469118

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What output do you get? What platform? (perl -V, that's an uppercase "V")

In reply to Re: srand producing the same sequence of random numbers by ikegami
in thread srand producing the same sequence of random numbers by e_c

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