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Seed rand() with the system time and display the first 10 numbers


#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

int main(void)
{
  int i, stime;
  long ltime;

  /* get the current calendar time */
  ltime = time(NULL);
  stime = (unsigned) ltime/2;
  srand(stime);

  for(i=0; i<10; i++) printf("%d ", rand());

  return 0;
}








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