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But if you're executing the script, in it's entirely, more than once a
second you're randomseed()'ing with the same time in that second and
you'll get the same random numbers...

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Alex Davies <alex.mania@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Majic wrote:
>>
>> Yes yes, was just hoping to get random numbers more than once a second
>> :)  I don't think that's portable though.... oh well.
>
> Easy ;).  Call randomseed once, when your program is first loaded... and
> then call random whenever you need a new number.  There's no need to call
> randomseed more then once.
>
> - Alex
>