Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION

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2002


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 43046
interpreted = N
texte = no prob, i'm tougher than a boiled owl. :)On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:26:03 Andrew Simpson wrote: >I wrote similar code to generate a database of 1000 >random 7 character >encryptions seeds. > >The reason i used a database was that i wanted random >alpha-numeric >characters 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 was >working has stopped working and theres no apparent reason >and thats about >the 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 a >more stable development platform with real code and real >databases is >looking more and more enticing. > >aaarrrrrgggh! > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Dan Strong >To: WebCatalog Talk >Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:57 AM >Subject: 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&NUMBERtyp >e >> >=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/------------------------------------------- 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/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION (Dan Strong 2002)
  2. Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION (Brian Fries 2002)
  3. Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION (Stuart Tremain 2002)
  4. Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION (Dan Strong 2002)
  5. Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION (Stuart Tremain 2002)
  6. Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION (Andrew Simpson 2002)
  7. Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION (Andrew Simpson 2002)
  8. Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION (Dan Strong 2002)
  9. Re: Non-repeating Random Numbers - CORRECTION (Dan Strong 2002)
no prob, i'm tougher than a boiled owl. :)On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:26:03 Andrew Simpson wrote: >I wrote similar code to generate a database of 1000 >random 7 character >encryptions seeds. > >The reason i used a database was that i wanted random >alpha-numeric >characters 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 was >working has stopped working and theres no apparent reason >and thats about >the 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 a >more stable development platform with real code and real >databases is >looking more and more enticing. > >aaarrrrrgggh! > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Dan Strong >To: WebCatalog Talk >Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:57 AM >Subject: 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&NUMBERtyp >e >> >=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/------------------------------------------- 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/ Dan Strong

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