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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada2005 random
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:30:24 +0000 (UTC)
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* Steve wrote:
> The following code almost does what you asked for.

No.

> The problem is that without the delays the selected random number is
> always the same.

This should lead you to the error.

> I think this is because a new generator is created for each call, and the
> "seed" value

Ack

> (based on time) is the same unless I include delays.

Nobody says, that the time is included in the seed. And more important: Even
if the random seed is generated from the time, the generation of random
values from the seed does have completely different statistical properties
than generating a seed from the time.

Therefore your code is wrong, wrong, and wrong. Don't use it!