or seed it with some real world random occurence.
Someone should setup a thingy ... you one of those johnson noise (?? been
awhile) things that use radioactive decay readings as random number
generation seeds...
hmmm.
www.randomseeds.com
You could create different seeds for people to request, you know create some
fun ones ...
Eric
From: Heath Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [CF-Talk] Random Images-Resources for Information?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:47:39 -0400
That is part of the issue with randrange.
It has demonstrated issues (ie, with numbers above 100,000,000 it actually
DEMONSTRATES NON-RANDOM behavior) with its functionality.
You should probably seed it with a Randomize to get really random effects...
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From: Jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 11:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [CF-Talk] Random Images-Resources for Information?
At 12:14 AM 9/20/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, in the process of trying to further understand the random image
>question, I've haven't been able to find much information on random
>functions at all.
>
>"Mastering Cold Fusion 4" doesn't even mention it
>"Cold Fusion 4.0" Web Application Construction Kit (Forta) mentions the
>tags, but doesn't really give any insight into the use
>Nothing on the Allaire site except the product documentation
>
>....anybody want to point me towards a good source?
>Why isn't "randrange(1,7)" really all that random?
I actually did notice something similar to your problem when I was working
with 4.5.1. Randrange did seem to be fond of numbers one and two. I was
selecting three unique numbers between 1 and 6. Almost every time 1 was
picked. About three quarters of the time 2 was picked. A little over half
of the time for 3. The numbers were sorted after being selected, so we got
groups like:
1,2,3
1,2,5
1,2,6
1,3,4
1,2,3
1,3,6
1,2,5
2,4,6
1,3,5
I did some statistics on it at the time with 1-9 and it took like 19 tries
before I didn't get a 1, a 2, or a 3. I figured that the algorithm had been
changed and was a bit lacking. There wasn't anything I could do about it,
so I just let it go. It picked those other ones eventually.
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