[openbeos] Re: is rand() really random?
- From: "Jared Eldredge" <jared@xxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri,09 Apr 2004 17:48:07 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page
> [...]
> Everytime i execute
> the following code:
>
> for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
> cout << "Random:" << rand() <<endl;
>
> the resulting values are exactly the same?
> [...]
> Greetings
> Andre Stark
Andre:
look here:
http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/cstdlib/rand.html
srand() is the seed function, pass it the system time to seed the
random number generator.
i'm pretty sure BeOS implements the standard c library has it was
supposed to be (*the standard way) and therefore the reference above
should describe it very well for you.
-jared
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