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The point is, if you want a repeatable sequence, ask for it. If you want a truly random sequence, ask for it.

What you don't want is a repeatable random sequence that you, the programmer, incorrectly think is truly random. But rather a lot of invocations to srand turn out to be this case, rather than either of the legitimate two.




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