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Weird random result
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Weird random result
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01684912
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01684912
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Hello all,

I need to generate random numbers. I need to get all numbers from 1 to 75 but randomly. I generated those but with a delay. Everything looked good when I generated those numbers with a delay of around 6 seconds. This means that numbers looked realy random. For example numbers generated looked like 25, 47, 12, 59 and so on.

A delay of six seconds between generated numbers was not enough. I had to increase the delay to 8 seconds. That's when the weirdest thing happened. The generated numbers didn't really look random. For example generated numbers looked like 23, 34, 45,46,47,48,49,50, 51, 30,31,32,33,34,45.

So I assume that the delay is the problem.

My solution to that weird problem. I generate all the random numbers without a delay between each generated number.
Then I get all the numbers in the order they were generated each 8 seconds.

Can anybody explain me why there seems to be a problem with random numbers and a delay?

Regards
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Denis Chassé
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