Getting a *more* random value

[Fredrik Thulin]

On Wednesday 29 March 2006 01:40, Pupeno wrote:
> Hello.
> I have an application where new processes are launched which
> calculate one random number between 0 and 512 and then do something
> with that number and terminate.
> I am currently using random:uniform(513) - 1 but that gives me the
> same random value for all the processes for each run of the
> application. I see that consecutive calls would get other numbers but
> I only need one. How am I supposed to get a number that is not the
> same on every process ? Thank you.

Seed the random generator with something that isn't the same when you 
restart your application?

  1> {A,B,C} = erlang:now(), random:seed(A, B, C).
  undefined
  2> random:uniform(513).
  123
  3> 

restart

  1> {A,B,C} = erlang:now(), random:seed(A, B, C).
  undefined
  2> random:uniform(513).
  254
  3>

/Fredrik