A few questions...

[RayBritton]

Hi i have a few questions which are:
1)Is there anyway of limiting the numbers that varibles can get (no?)
2)What does RANDOMIZE do, that effects RND
3)In the Subs/Functions menu there are numbers after the name, what do they mean?

Thanks

[RyanKelly]

1. No. You have to do this manually.
2. The random number generator applies an algorithm to a sequence of numbers. If it starts with the same "seed" you get the same series of numbers from the rnd function. RANDOMIZE sets the seed.
3. I think those numbers indicate the amount of memory in kilobytes that the procedure occupies after it has been translated to pcode by the interpretor.

[RayBritton]

thanks

[Zim]

Randomize re-seeds the random number generator (RNG) but it doesn't "set" the seed. For example:

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randomize 555
print rnd
randomize 555
print rnd

would be expected to return the same number, but it doesn't. Here's the output from QB 3

• .9563706
  .1887001

You'll get other numbers from QB 4, but they'll both still be different.
(Note: if you restart the program, you'll get the same two numbers.)

if you want to actually SET the seed to, say "555" you have to do this:

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dummy=rnd(-555)

From this point on the sequence you get will be the one starting with "555" as a seed.

[Zamaster]

For the record, Im pretty sure QB running on windows follows this function to generate random numbers:

rand = (seed * 214013 + 2531011) MOD 16777216
seed = rand

whereas the last random number generated is the new seed.
But when we would ask QB for an actual random munber... it returns this instead(frand = rand number that RND returns)

rand = (seed * 214013 + 2531011) MOD 16777216
seed = rand
frand = rand / 16777216

So the new seed isnt actually that number between 0 and 1, its a different number but not the one thet gets returned to us.