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Brand, spankin' newbie here...

I'm simulating randomly created striations (scratches) on a pair of bullets and comparing them. This requires huge invocations of RND. There are 300 possible sites on each pair that are chosen to be either striation or non-striation using RND. After half a million or so pairs of bullets, the patterns generated recur because the length of the string of pseudo-random numbers that QB can make has been exceeded and the numbers begin to repeat. It makes no difference whether I RANDOMIZE with a seed number or with RANDOMIZE TIMER. I tried a line to the effect of IF RND>.95 THEN RANDOMIZE TIMER. No help. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Rocky

Random numbers repeat themselves at times eventually and with QB there is no way around it.

You could try to seed the numbers using TIMER which should give you a more random starting point but you will never be 100% happy as random repeats itself in real life.

QB64 can use RANDOMIZE USING seednumber also to repeat a new number series. You could try that, but they all repeat themselves eventually.