Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION
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texte = I wrote similar code to generate a database of 1000 random 7 characterencryptions seeds.The reason i used a database was that i wanted random alpha-numericcharacters not just numbers which is not 100% what your doing - sorry.Anyway - i'm a bit shorty this morning. sick as a dog and stuff that wasworking has stopped working and theres no apparent reason and thats aboutthe fastest way to piss me off. didn't mean to take it out on you.I do want to throw my copy of webcat out the friggin window however and amore stable development platform with real code and real databases islooking more and more enticing.aaarrrrrgggh!----- Original Message -----From: Dan Strong
To: WebCatalog Talk Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:57 AMSubject: Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION> Andrew,>> I don't really want to search a .db that's why I went the> route I did...but I'm sure your code works fine...>> Seems I spoke too soon..previous code was showing> duplicate #s (read: not working as intended) so I altered> the code slightly from before, and it appears to work. For> anyone who's interested here is working code (Andrew (and> any 'grown-ups')can ignore this... ;)>> [!] -- Randomly generate 6 unique numbers between 1 and 54> -- [/!]> [text show=f]unique_numbers=[/text]> [math show=f]found=0[/math]> [loop start=1&end=20]> [text show=f]random_number=[math]ceil([RANDOM> format=float]*(54))[/math][/text]> [hideif [unique_numbers]^[random_number]]> [text> show=f]unique_numbers=[unique_numbers][random_number]> [/text]> [math show=f]found=[found]+1[/math]> [/hideif]> [showif [found]=6][break][/showif]> [/loop]> [unique_numbers]>> -Dan> -------------------------------------------> http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com> (208) 319-0137 | Toll-free p/f 877-561-1656>>>> On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:08:32> Andrew Simpson > wrote:> >whats wrong with :> >> >[search>>db=/db/54numbersfrom1-54.db&neNUMBERdatarq=[BLANK]&raNUMBERsort=1&NUMBERtype> >=NUM&max=6]> > [founditems][number]
[/founditems]> >[/search]> >> >> >----- Original Message -----> >From: Dan Strong > >To: WebCatalog Talk > >Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:46 AM> >Subject: Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION> >> >> >> whoops...> >> [showif [found]=5][break][/showif]> >> should say 6, not 5... corrected code below:> >>> >> [!] --- Generate 6 unique numbers between 1 and 54 ---> >> [/!]> >> [text show=f]unique_numbers= [/text]> >> [math show=f]found=0[/math]> >> [loop start=1&end=20]> >> [text show=f]random_number=[math]ceil([RANDOM> >> format=float]*(54))[/math][/text]> >> [showif [unique_numbers]! [random_number] ]> >> [text> >> show=f]unique_numbers=[unique_numbers][random_number]> >> [/text]> >> [math show=f]found=[found]+1[/math]> >> [/showif]> >> [showif [found]=6][break][/showif]> >> [/loop]> >> [unique_numbers]> >>> >> -Dan> >> -------------------------------------------> >> http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com> >> (208) 319-0137 | Toll-free p/f 877-561-1656> >>> >>> >> -------------------------------------------------------------> >> 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> >> >> Web Archive of this list is at:> >>http://search.smithmicro.com/> >> >> >-------------------------------------------------------------> >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> >> >Web Archive of this list is at:> >http://search.smithmicro.com/>>> -------------------------------------------------------------> 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> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------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 Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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I wrote similar code to generate a database of 1000 random 7 characterencryptions seeds.The reason i used a database was that i wanted random alpha-numericcharacters not just numbers which is not 100% what your doing - sorry.Anyway - i'm a bit shorty this morning. sick as a dog and stuff that wasworking has stopped working and theres no apparent reason and thats aboutthe fastest way to piss me off. didn't mean to take it out on you.I do want to throw my copy of webcat out the friggin window however and amore stable development platform with real code and real databases islooking more and more enticing.aaarrrrrgggh!----- Original Message -----From: Dan Strong To: WebCatalog Talk Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:57 AMSubject: Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION> Andrew,>> I don't really want to search a .db that's why I went the> route I did...but I'm sure your code works fine...>> Seems I spoke too soon..previous code was showing> duplicate #s (read: not working as intended) so I altered> the code slightly from before, and it appears to work. For> anyone who's interested here is working code (Andrew (and> any 'grown-ups')can ignore this... ;)>> [!] -- Randomly generate 6 unique numbers between 1 and 54> -- [/!]> [text show=f]unique_numbers=[/text]> [math show=f]found=0[/math]> [loop start=1&end=20]> [text show=f]random_number=[math]ceil([RANDOM> format=float]*(54))[/math][/text]> [hideif [unique_numbers]^[random_number]]> [text> show=f]unique_numbers=[unique_numbers][random_number]> [/text]> [math show=f]found=[found]+1[/math]> [/hideif]> [showif [found]=6][break][/showif]> [/loop]> [unique_numbers]>> -Dan> -------------------------------------------> http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com> (208) 319-0137 | Toll-free p/f 877-561-1656>>>> On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:08:32> Andrew Simpson > wrote:> >whats wrong with :> >> >[search>>db=/db/54numbersfrom1-54.db&neNUMBERdatarq=[BLANK]&raNUMBERsort=1&NUMBERtype> >=NUM&max=6]> > [founditems][number]
[/founditems]> >[/search]> >> >> >----- Original Message -----> >From: Dan Strong > >To: WebCatalog Talk > >Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:46 AM> >Subject: Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION> >> >> >> whoops...> >> [showif [found]=5][break][/showif]> >> should say 6, not 5... corrected code below:> >>> >> [!] --- Generate 6 unique numbers between 1 and 54 ---> >> [/!]> >> [text show=f]unique_numbers= [/text]> >> [math show=f]found=0[/math]> >> [loop start=1&end=20]> >> [text show=f]random_number=[math]ceil([RANDOM> >> format=float]*(54))[/math][/text]> >> [showif [unique_numbers]! [random_number] ]> >> [text> >> show=f]unique_numbers=[unique_numbers][random_number]> >> [/text]> >> [math show=f]found=[found]+1[/math]> >> [/showif]> >> [showif [found]=6][break][/showif]> >> [/loop]> >> [unique_numbers]> >>> >> -Dan> >> -------------------------------------------> >> http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com> >> (208) 319-0137 | Toll-free p/f 877-561-1656> >>> >>> >> -------------------------------------------------------------> >> 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> >> >> Web Archive of this list is at:> >>http://search.smithmicro.com/> >> >> >-------------------------------------------------------------> >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> >> >Web Archive of this list is at:> >http://search.smithmicro.com/>>> -------------------------------------------------------------> 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> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------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 Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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