No it's not Windoze. I'm running Unidata PE on Win2000 and I get this:
* BBB - Test custom snippets
FOR I = 1 TO 100
PRINT RND(370570)
INPUT HUGGA
IF HUGGA THEN STOP
NEXT I
STOP
:BBB
43874
?
27779
?
267409
?
138481
?
188948
?
243449
?
253422
?
282865
?
33416
?
351549
Must be a Universe limitation on Windoze.........
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Glenn Herbert
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 12:01
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [U2] [UV] Random number (RND()) help
Oh yes. That is the limitation on 32-bit Windoze. Your numbers WILL
differ on UNIX systems.
At 02:36 PM 11/10/2004, you wrote:
>I ran your code on UV 10.1 on AIX and the highest number generated was
370558
>I don't think it's your code
>
>Mel
>
>
>UV 9.6.1.3 on NT.
>I needed to generate some random numbers between 0 and 370570, and just to
>check the distribution of numbers, I ran this snippet of code:
>
>FOR I = 1 TO 999999
> THIS.NUM = RND(370570)
>NEXT
>
>What's odd is that no matter how many times I run this, the distribution of
>numbers is always completely in the lower 10% of the range (approx). In
>other words, there are never any numbers generated higher than ~ 33,000.
>
>Am I doing something stupidly wrong?
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