I know you hoped I'd say seed everytime but my answer is just once :-D

>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