repeat numbers. That's not all that busy.
We're not talking about truly random numbers, just small simple measures to
take over the built in functions to avoid immediate repeats.
Sam
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Moretti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 12:29 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: random number cfc
>
> > Because passing a seed that is only accurate to the second
> will cause
> > duplicate numbers in a high volume site.
> >
>
> Hell that'd have to one seriously busy website! That's like
> 99999999 hits per second (or millisecond if you don't seed
> Randomize()) website!
>
> Well no thats not strictly true. It is an exaggeration.
>
> It should be noted that no matter how good the seed a
> computer generated random number is not random and should not
> be trusted at any time to give a truly random number or for
> the "random" number not to be a repeat!
>
> It sounds like you are wanting to get a unique number out of
> a random number generator, which you are never going to manage.
>
> Stephen
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