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Visual FoxPro
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Codage, syntaxe et commandes
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Thread ID:
01225489
Message ID:
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>>>>>Is it possible to return numbers from 1 to 10,000 in a aleatory way ?
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>>>>Nobody who doesn't know Portuguese or Spanish will understand "aleatory" - the word is "random" or "randomly".
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>>>Aleatory is also an English word. Means the same thing.
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>>I checked by MS-Word, it returned 'not found'.
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>Ok, I just checked Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary and it's there. I don't know where I knew the word from. Probably something I read once upon a time, but for whatever reason, I did know it, and since I don't know any Spanish or Portuguese, I figured it had to be English.

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aleatory

a·le·a·to·ry [ áylee ə tàwree ]

adjective

Definition:

1. depending on chance: depending on chance or contingency

2. having random notes: having the sequence of given notes or passages in a piece of music chosen at random by the performer or left to chance

[Late 17th century. < Latin aleatorius < alea "dice"]
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I ain't skeert of nuttin eh?
Yikes! What was that?
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