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From: Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>
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Subject: Re:  Random.int on non unix platform
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>From: Martin Quinson <mquinson@zeppelin-cb.de>

>How can I write this without the unix library ?
>
>Random.init (int_of_float (Unix.time ()));;

You can do:

    Random.init (int_of_float (Sys.time ()));;

or you can input a random seed from the user and give it as argument
to Random.init.

-- Damien