Don't most programs actually have a random number table that they draw the random numbers from? Then every time you reset the software, they begin pulling the same random numbers? We got around this one time by using the IP address, stripping the periods...raising to a power of two (or something similar) and using the resulting number as the random seed. Still not truly random but seemed (at the time 4+ years ago) "more" random.
--JW Kwang Suh wrote: > You should know that the random function in SQL Server really, really > sucks. > Unless you can seed it with a number that changes constantly every ti > me > before you call the function, you'll get lots of unrandom numbers. ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
