C++ Predictable Rand() Output

Question

After noticing that the rand() function produced the same output of 41 each time, I seeded the generator using srand(time(0)). That solved the problem of the recurring outpu

Answer 1

I have no idea why you are getting those results, but there are better ways in C++11:

#include 
#include 
int main()
{
    auto rnd = std::default_random_engine(std::random_device{}());
    std::uniform_int_distribution<> dis(1, 999);
    std::cout << dis(rnd) << '\n';
}