I am in my first week of self taught cpp, sorry if this is basic. My mother works in a hospital and is required to inspect a random 20% of the daily admissions. She has found that she is repeating patterns unintentionally and would like to find a way to randomly choose the inspections. I had just created a random number generator the night before and thought that it could be done with a while statement. Instead of getting all random numbers, it repeats the same number the correct number of times. I don't have a good understanding of seeding, but my thought is that I am seeding it with time and since it is repeating rapidly it is re-running too quickly to generate a different number. It doesn't bother me if you just send me to a source for a better understanding of what I'm doing! Thanks in advance.
Here's the code.
//Program to generate random numbers as a % of total admissions
// My first real world project
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <ctime>
int count = 0;
int admissions = 2;
int main()
{
std::cout << "How many admissions today? ";
std::cin >> admissions;
int cycles = admissions * .2;
while (true)
{
if (count == cycles)
{
break;
}
srand(static_cast<unsigned int>(time(0)));
int random_number = rand();
std::cout << "\nYour numbers are: " << random_number % cycles+1;
count += 1;
}
return 0;
}