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To: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:29:11 -0500
Subject: Re: Srandom
Message-ID: <19980330.202928.14806.0.matthew.krause@juno.com>
From: matthew DOT krause AT juno DOT com (Matthew R Krause)

Wouldn't using the previous random number as a seed work better? In other
words, start with the time as a seed and generate a random number 'x'.
Seed random with 'x' next time, and set 'x' as new seed? 
I'm not sure about this, though, and __please__ tell if I'm wrong!!

Matt Krause
Orange, CT USA

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