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• MySQL: LIMIT then RAND rather than RAND then LIMIT

  - by Larry

  I'm using full text search to pull rows. I order the rows based on score (ORDER BY SCORE) , then of the top 20 rows (LIMIT 20), I want to rand (RAND) the result set. So for any specific search term, I want to randomly show 5 of the top 20 results. My workaround is code based- where I put the top 20 into an array then randomly select 5. Is there…

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• LIMIT then RAND rather than RAND then LIMIT

  - by Larry

  I'm using full text search to pull rows. I order the rows based on score (ORDER BY SCORE) , then of the top 20 rows (LIMIT 20), I want to rand (RAND) the result set. So for any specific search term, I want to randomly show 5 of the top 20 results. My workaround is code based- where I put the top 20 into an array then randomly select 5. Is there…

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• PHP rand function (or not so rand)

  - by Badr Hari

  I was testing PHP rand function to write on a image. Of course the output shows that it's not so random. The code I used: <?php header('Content-Type: image/png'); $lenght = 512; $im = imagecreatetruecolor($lenght, $lenght); $blue = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 255, 255); for ($y = 0; $y < $lenght; $y++) { for ($x = 0; $x < $lenght;…

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• SQL SERVER – Using RAND() in User Defined Functions (UDF)

  - by pinaldave

  Here is the question I received in email. “Pinal, I am writing a function where we need to generate random password. While writing T-SQL I faced following issue. Everytime I tried to use RAND() function in my User Defined Function I am getting following error: Msg 443, Level 16, State 1, Procedure RandFn, Line 7 Invalid use of a side-effecting…

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• rand () for c++ with variables...

  - by timothy

  int userHP = 100; int enemyHP = rand() % ((userHP - 50) - (userHP - 75)) + 1; okay, for some reason this doesnt seem to work right, im trying to get 50 -25 hp for enemys. also id rather it be a percentage... like int enemyHP = rand() % ((userHP / 50%) - (userHP / 75%)) + 1; but id like to stick with integers and not mess with floats or…

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• rand() generating the same number – even with srand(time(NULL)) in my main!

  - by Nick Sweet

  So, I'm trying to create a random vector (think geometry, not an expandable array), and every time I call my random vector function I get the same x value, thought y and z are different. int main () { srand ( (unsigned)time(NULL)); Vector<double> a; a.randvec(); cout << a << endl; return 0; } using the function //random…

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• How does MySQL's ORDER BY RAND() work?

  - by Eugene

  Hi, I've been doing some research and testing on how to do fast random selection in MySQL. In the process I've faced some unexpected results and now I am not fully sure I know how ORDER BY RAND() really works. I always thought that when you do ORDER BY RAND() on the table, MySQL adds a new column to the table which is filled with random…

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• openssl/rand.h header file not found

  - by Arun Reddy Kandoor

  I have installed libssl-dev package but that did not install the include files. How do I get the openssl include files? Appreciate your help. Checking for program g++ or c++ : /usr/bin/g++ Checking for program cpp : /usr/bin/cpp Checking for program ar : /usr/bin/ar Checking for program ranlib…

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• Distinct rand() sequences yielding the same results in an expression

  - by suszterpatt

  Ok, this is a really weird one. I have an MPI program, where each process has to generate random numbers in a fixed range (the range is read from file). What happens is that even though I seed each process with a different value, and the numbers generated by rand() are different in each process, the expression to generate the random…

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• [MySQL/PHP] Avoid using RAND()

  - by Andrew Ellis

  So... I have never had a need to do a random SELECT on a MySQL DB until this project I'm working on. After researching it seems the general populous says that using RAND() is a bad idea. I found an article that explains how to do another type of random select. Basically, if I want to select 5 random elements, I should do the…

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• Fill a table from a RAND based formula in Excel 2010

  - by Greg Reynolds

  I am trying to do a Monte Carlo simulation using Excel, but a lot of the tutorials I have found are either for older versions of the product, or are not quite what I am after. A simple example of the kind of think I am after is: Cell A1 contains the formula to simulate (for example int(6*rand())+1 to simulate rolling a…

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• Example about crypto/rand in Go

  - by nevalu

  Could put a little example about the use of crypto/rand [1]? The function Read has as parameter an array of bytes. Why? If it access to /dev/urandom to get the random data. func Read(b []byte) (n int, err os.Error) [1] http://golang.org/pkg/crypto/rand/

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• Is rand() predictable in C++

  - by singh

  When I run the below program I always get the same values each time. Is rand not a true random function? int main() { while(1) { getch(); cout<<rand()<<endl; } } In each run I am getting the below values. 41 18467 6334 26500 19169 15724 ......

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• is rand() is perdicatable in C++

  - by singh

  Hi When i run below program i always get same values each time..Is rand is not a true random function. int main() { while(1) { getch(); cout<<rand()<<endl; } } In each run i am getting below values. 41 18467 6334 26500 19169 15724 ......

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• MySQL ORDER BY rand(), name ASC

  - by Josh K

  I would like to take a database of say, 1000 users and select 20 random ones (ORDER BY rand(),LIMIT 20) then order the resulting set by the names. I came up with the following query which is not working like I hoped. SELECT * FROM users WHERE 1 ORDER BY rand(), name ASC LIMIT 20

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• Plotting points so that they do not overlap if they have the same co-ordinates

  - by betamax

  Hi everyone, I have a function that takes longitude and latitude and converts it to x and y to be plotted. The conversion to X and Y is working fine and that is not what I have the problem with. I want to ensure that two points are not plotted in the same place. In one set of results there are about 30 on top of each…

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• migrate method Rand(int) Visual Fox Pro to C#.net

  - by ch2o

  I'm migrating a Visual Fox Pro code to C #. NET What makes the Visual Fox Pro: generates a string of 5 digits ("48963") based on a text string (captured in a textbox), if you always enter the same text string will get that string always 5 digits (no reverse), my code in C #. NET should generate the same string. I…

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• Order By Rand by Time (HQL)

  - by Felipe

  Hi all, I'm developing a web application using asp.net Mvc 2 and NHibernate, and I'm paging data (products in a category) in my page, but this data are random, so, I'm using a HQL statement link this: string hql = "from Product p where p.Category.Id=:IdCategory order by rand()"; It's working fine, but when I…

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• Error trying to use rand from std library cstdlib with g++

  - by Matt

  I was trying to use the random function in Ubuntu compiling with g++ on a larger program and for some reason rand just gave weird compile errors. For testing purposes I made the simplest program I could and it still gives errors. Program: #include <iostream> using std::cout; using std::endl; …

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• struct and rand()

  - by teoz

  I have a struct with an array of 100 int (b) and a variable of type int (a) I have a function that checks if the value of "a" is in the array and i have generated the array elements and the variable with random values. but it doesn't work can someone help me fix it? #include <stdio.h> #include…

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• Rand(); with exclusion to and already randomly generated number..?

  - by Stefan

  Hey, I have a function which calls a users associated users from a table. The function then uses the rand(); function to chose from the array 5 randomly selected userID's however!... In the case where a user doesnt have many associated users but above the min (if below the 5 it just returns the array…

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• rand (0,9) in php?

  - by aamir Fayyaz

  i am using rand function, but a problem is, when new value print old valu not remove, means new value over write on old value?

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• What is the function of rand() in Perl?

  - by stordi

  What is the function of rand() in Perl? Can you give me a example of this function?

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• Cheap and cheerful rand() replacement.

  - by Mick

  After profiling a large game playing program, I have found that the library function rand() is consuming a considerable fraction of the total processing time. My requirements for the random number generator are not very onerous - its not important that it pass a great battery of statistical tests of…

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• =rand(100,60) - MSOffice Problem

  - by sagar

  Oho ! Have you tried this one ?? Very simple office utility question. The question is something like this. Open Microsoft word ( 2003 or 2007 ) whatever you use. ( Let me clarify that - I am not here for any kind of advertisement of Micro soft - I want to solution to my Query ) After opening…

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