Curious. What do you mean by seed?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 3:01 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [CF-Talk] Random Images-Resources for Information?
>
>
> Depends what you're thinking when you say random. If you mean calling
> the function 7 times always pulls up 7 different numbers, then that is
> NOT a random sequence. By chance (err... 'randomness') you could
> conceivably pull up the same number 7 times in a row (or a hundred times
> in a row). You'd sit there and say "This isn't random", but it's just a
> 'streak' of good/bad/neither luck that this strange sequence ocurred.
>
> One other thing, mostly unrelated to the above. The way computers
> usually generate random numbers is by pulling numbers out of a large,
> stored table (containing, you guessed it, random numbers). You should
> always seed the random number generator before you use it the first
> time, so that the sequence doesn't always start in the same place within
> the table. If you don't do this, you may notice the same sequence of
> numbers every time the program runs.
>
> Jim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Mizzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 3:35 AM
> Subject: RE: [CF-Talk] Random Images-Resources for Information?
>
>
> >Thanks - will try this and see what happens.
> >
> >What nobody has told me yet though...is WHY *DOESN'T* "<cfparam
> >name="imageswap" default="#randrange(1,7)#">" return 1 through 7
> randomly?
> >
> >Les Mizzell
> >***********
> >Some people say I'm too apathetic.
> >But why should I care?
>
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