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What is a seed in c++?

"Call a function to populate the array to perform the following:
Ask the user for a seed"

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My first guess would be that seed could mean a number to pass to the srand function, for random numbers.
http://www.cppreference.com/wiki/c/other/srand


Otherwise, the best person to ask is whoever provided you with the details of the problem

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My first guess would be that seed could mean a number to pass to the srand function, for random numbers.

That's one of the more common uses of the term. In crytography, you'll see "initialization vector" more often. In general, I'd understand "seed" to mean "initial value(s)"--in this case, values for part or all of the array. As Bench suggests, check with who's asking for details.

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