Re: random doesn't feel very random

[Ivan Kanis]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

>     > Why would extra invocations of (random t) cause repetitive behavior?
>
> (random t) calculates a seed based on the current time.
> Unless it is done repeatedly in a very short time, that
> should make a different seed each time.

I had emacs play the same track after two starts. My emacs takes few
seconds to start.

It happened on Ubuntu 10.10 or Debian 6.0.

Does the function random not take into account the seconds when it's
seeded?
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