Denis,

No what? Do you set the seed every time or just once?

>No, I used a timer object that executed some code every 6 seconds and later 8 seconds (that version being the weird one).
>
>>Denis,
>>
>>your delay, is this like
>>

>>thisform.nTot = 75
>>RAND(-1)
>>DO WHILE thisform.nTot > 0
>>	nIdRandom = INT(thisform.nTot * RAND() + 1)
>>       .
>>       .
>>       .
>>	thisform.nTot = thisform.nTot - 1
>>
>>   WAIT TIMEOUT 8
>>
>>ENDDO
>>

>>
>>or like
>>
>>

>>DO WHILE .t.
>>
>>thisform.nTot = 75
>>RAND(-1)
>>DO WHILE thisform.nTot > 0
>>	nIdRandom = INT(thisform.nTot * RAND() + 1)
>>       .
>>       .
>>       .
>>	thisform.nTot = thisform.nTot - 1
>>ENDDO
>>
>>WAIT TIMEOUT 8
>>ENDDO
>>

>>?
>>
>>Since the seed of -1 does something with the system timer, this might be in the logic of this. Use the seed only one time, initialy.
>>
>>Lutz
>>>

>>>thisform.nTot = 75
>>>RAND(-1)
>>>DO WHILE thisform.nTot > 0
>>>	nIdRandom = INT(thisform.nTot * RAND() + 1)
>>>       .
>>>       .
>>>       .
>>>	thisform.nTot = thisform.nTot - 1
>>>ENDDO
>>>

>>>
>>>I didn't show all the code because I created a cursor that will contain random numbers that were generated.
>>>
>>>So mainly this is how I do it now, but my weird results were obtained on a timer executing my random generation. Good results obtained on my timer being called every 6 seconds. Not so random numbers each 8 seconds.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>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
>>>>
>>>>Hi Denis
>>>>
>>>>I've run
>>>>

>>>>FOR i= 1 TO 10
>>>>?RAND()*75
>>>>WAIT TIMEOUT 8
>>>>endfor
>>>>

>>>>and the result looks random enough. What is the code you use the RAND? Is there a seed? What is happening in the time between?
>>>>
>>>>Lutz