sandyrepope
21-05-2008, 00:11
I would like to suggest that in the help file that for rnd and rndf a note reminding the user that certain situations require the varable to be dimensioned as a floating point.
Extended numeric syntax:
RND executed without any parameters returns a random Extended-precision value that is less than 1, but greater than or equal to 0.
Numbers generated by RND aren't really random, but are the result of applying a pseudo-random transformation algorithm to a starting ("seed") value.
Given the same seed, RND algorithm always produces the same sequence of "random" numbers.
Here for example. It isn't clear that a floating point varable should be used. I think that a new user won't get it. (I didn't at first).
Thanks
Sandy
Extended numeric syntax:
RND executed without any parameters returns a random Extended-precision value that is less than 1, but greater than or equal to 0.
Numbers generated by RND aren't really random, but are the result of applying a pseudo-random transformation algorithm to a starting ("seed") value.
Given the same seed, RND algorithm always produces the same sequence of "random" numbers.
Here for example. It isn't clear that a floating point varable should be used. I think that a new user won't get it. (I didn't at first).
Thanks
Sandy