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Hi,

Deepak Yadav typed:
> my program to generate random numbers give same set every time i run it. plz
> help (i am using linux 6.2 and its random dameon is ON)
>  srand(1);

If you give a constant seed, you'll get the same numbers every time.
Use srand(time(NULL)) instead, or something of that sort.

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