Re: Random sort is not random at all.....
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texte = I built a banner system that gets about 10k hits a day and 25% of the customers only get their banner shown at a rate of 10% of all the others. . .I hate this.It's always the same ones that get cheated.Random doesn't work very well.ml>I did similar testing using a search in a [loop] set to go 1000 times. Same kind of >results as Joseph D'Andrea and John Hill. > >But right now the thing that is bothering me even more than the lack of real randomness >across 1000 searches is that when the template is set to display only the one (max=1) >found record in a single search, then it ALWAYS displays one of 2 or 3 records. In other >words the random search may be sort of random when it is inside a [loop] to be repeated >many times, but when it is not set to me repeated more than once, then I always get the >same 2 records. If I set the [loop] to go 20 times then I see it starts to find other >records (though they are weighted less), but if I force reload the very same code 20 >times - but which is not in that [loop] - it NEVER finds any records other than the 2 or >3. Weird. > >-John > > >------------------------------------------------------------- >Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. >To end your Mail problems go to
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I built a banner system that gets about 10k hits a day and 25% of the customers only get their banner shown at a rate of 10% of all the others. . .I hate this.It's always the same ones that get cheated.Random doesn't work very well.ml>I did similar testing using a search in a [loop] set to go 1000 times. Same kind of >results as Joseph D'Andrea and John Hill. > >But right now the thing that is bothering me even more than the lack of real randomness >across 1000 searches is that when the template is set to display only the one (max=1) >found record in a single search, then it ALWAYS displays one of 2 or 3 records. In other >words the random search may be sort of random when it is inside a [loop] to be repeated >many times, but when it is not set to me repeated more than once, then I always get the >same 2 records. If I set the [loop] to go 20 times then I see it starts to find other >records (though they are weighted less), but if I force reload the very same code 20 >times - but which is not in that [loop] - it NEVER finds any records other than the 2 or >3. Weird. > >-John > > >------------------------------------------------------------- >Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. >To end your Mail problems go to . > >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to \|/ (. .) _________________________ooO_(_)_Ooo_____________________________ Mark Lacas mailto:mark@lacas.com Virtual Loft / Seattle HarborCam: http://www.loftcam.com/ SeattleStuff WebCommerce Community: http://www.seattlestuff.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. To end your Mail problems go to .This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to
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