Re: Randomly generated unique numbers - Razzak's Reply

[Bill Downall]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:16:24 -0400, Jim Limburg wrote:

>Ben is right. Haven't tested it lately but when I first started learning
>VB the random function it used did the same thing..

When I first started learning BASIC in the late 60s -- way before Bill G co-
opted it, made it Visual, and thumbed his nose at the rest of the 
members of the ANSI standards committee on BASIC -- I remember John 
G. Kemeny teaching us that RANDOM always generated the same 
sequence of random numbers, which made testing a lot more 
manageable.  Then there was another command, maybe SEED, that 
turned on true randomization.  That BASIC was written in FORTRAN.

Bill