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mt_srand

Name

mt_srand — Seeds the random number generator for mt_rand() .

Synopsis

void mt_srand(seed); int seed: Seed number for the random number generator

Returns

Nothing

Description

This function seeds the random number generator for mt_rand() . The greater the randomness of the initial seed passed to this function, the better the randomness of the numbers later generated by mt_rand() .

This function needs to be called only once per script, before any calls to mt_rand() .

Version

PHP 3 since 3.0.6, PHP 4

Example

Example 683. Seed the Mersenne Twister random number generator

mt_srand((double) microtime() * 1000000);

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