XPost: comp.lang.pascal.misc   
   From: cfbsoftware@hotmail.com   
      
   "Jim Higgins"  wrote in message   
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   >   
   > The problem is that he placed his call to randomize within the   
   > generateStudent procedure which is within for..loop so he's   
   > reseeding his RNG each time thru the loop.  A fast machine could   
   > easily make the required 10 passes thru the loop before the   
   > system clock ticks over to the next value.  Since randomize seeds   
   > the random number generator from the system clock all his random   
   > data could be identical, or at most two sets of data since even a   
   > slow machine will probably run the code before the clock ticks   
   > twice.   
   >   
      
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