Thread: Quick question.. why does rand() keep giving me the same 'random' number each time?

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    Quick question.. why does rand() keep giving me the same 'random' number each time?

    Hey again everyone

    I was doing the tuts and problem solving question things on this site and came across the guessing game. I did it all and it's working as needed, but every time I run it, rand()%100; always gives me the result 41??
    Why?

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    Did you seed the random number generator with srand()?

    Jim]

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    No. I just copied the code from the website. I haven't really ever had anything to do with rand() as the temp software I write doesn't ever need random numbers. But thank you, I will look into that.

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