Jason Rohwedder
11/28/2006 5:56:00 PM
I haven't played with rand, but
Time.now.to_i
should get you a useful seed value.
-jro
On Nov 28, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Smgspices@aol.com wrote:
> Surely it must be possible to initialize rand with current date and
> time.
> Documents seem to indicate this is done with rand(0) or srand with
> no value. I
> have tried both methods and I get the same tired old sequence of
> numbers. I
> would write my own random number generator except I don't know how
> to get a
> numeric value out of Time.
>
> Charles Gray