Re: Random numbers continued

[Bill Downall]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:25:43 -0400, Bob Powell wrote:

>She has it 
>in her notes from one of her database instructors that 
>random generated id numbers is a good thing.  

Or, maybe what her instructor MEANT was that meaningless, arbitrarily 
generated id numbers was a good thing (which is also debatable, to 
those strong in theory and short in practicality), and the word "random" 
was misapplied. 

Random means non-sequitor to my teenager, as in "Wow. That was 
random."

Bill