an altenative PRNG seed (other than time(0))

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Originally Posted by Salem

Yeah, but clock starts at 0, at program start, so testing it first is still going to produce much the same answer in both program instances.

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Before I posted I wrote a program just to make sure it worked and it did, but later when I ran the program, I kept getting zero for both as you pointed out above. So you are right, it won't work. Anyway, you will have to use a non-portable solution like QueryPerformanceCounter in windows or another high resolution timer