Barry, On UV10.0.16, HPUX11i, I get a reasonable distribution: 0001: DIM DISTRIB(10) ; MAT DISTRIB = 0 0002: FOR I = 1 TO 999999 0003: THIS.NUM = RND(370570) 0004: DISTRIB( 1+ INT( THIS.NUM/37057 ) )+= 1 0005: NEXT 0006: FOR I = 1 TO 10 0007: CRT I, DISTRIB(I) 0008: NEXT
>RUN CDS.BP R 1 99870 2 99853 3 99957 4 100267 5 100168 6 100257 7 100115 8 99556 9 100146 10 99810 >.X 01 RUN CDS.BP R 1 100445 2 99652 3 100301 4 99603 5 99867 6 100032 7 99785 8 99436 9 100211 10 100667 > -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Brevik Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:03 AM To: U2-users (E-mail) Subject: [U2] [UV] Random number (RND()) help 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? Barry ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
