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Nope none at all, I was actually going to use that in the end......this was a whole new experience for me, so I was working somewhat blind at first. Thanks though Gary excellent thought and idea. -----Original Message----- From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary_Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 2:27 PM To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries Subject: RE: Random Numbers Hey Doug, Any reason you can't use embedded SQL to achieve this? /exec sql set :randNumber = int(rand()*1000) /end-exec Cheers Gary "Doug Palme" <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 03/16/2007 02:10 PM Please respond to RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To "'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject RE: Random Numbers Supposedly its first run uses the time as the seed. -----Original Message----- From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob P. Roche Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 10:40 AM To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries Subject: RE: Random Numbers I'm not sure exactly how this works, but what data is coming from the SEEDPF could the seednum parameter have something to do with the range? "Wilt, Charles" <WiltC@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 03/16/2007 10:09 AM Please respond to RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject RE: Random Numbers Remember that it is floating point... Perhaps it was 8.7658... x10^-1 Which would be .87658.... Charles -----Original Message----- From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug Palme Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 11:03 AM To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries' Subject: RE: Random Numbers I stepped through it in debug and the last test showed a value of 8.7658... -----Original Message----- From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wilt, Charles Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 10:02 AM To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries Subject: RE: Random Numbers You sure about that? Are you calling it correctly? Are you using an 8 byte floating point variable to hold the returned value? If yes to all the above, call IBM as the docs say: "The Basic Random Number Generation (CEERAN0) API generates a sequence of uniform pseudorandom numbers between 0 and 1 using the multiplicative congruential method with a user-specified seed." Charles -----Original Message----- From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug Palme Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 10:53 AM To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries' Subject: RE: Random Numbers Actually it is returning a value between 1 and < 10 -----Original Message----- From: rpg400-l-bounces+dpalme=hdsmith.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces+dpalme=hdsmith.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wilt, Charles Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 9:52 AM To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries Subject: RE: Random Numbers Doug, CEERAN0 returns a floating point value between 0 and 1. So to get a number between 1 and 1000, simply multiple the value returned by CEERAN0 by 1000 HTH, Charles -----Original Message----- From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas Palme Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 10:41 AM To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries' Subject: Random Numbers I have been looking for a random number generator for RPG and found an example on IBM's website. I know that with other languages I can specify that I want the random numbers that are generated to fall within a specified range, IE: between 1 and 1000. Here is the code that IBM suggested: Fseedpf uf e disk usropn F Frandpf o e disk usropn F DTimes c const(1000) Dfactor c const(10000000000) D Dstdpacked s 15p 5 Dstdint s 10i 0 Dstddouble s 8f Dstdfc s 12a D Drandnum_gen pr extproc('CEERAN0') Dpr_seed LIKE(stdint) Dpr_randum like(stddouble) Dpr_fc like(stdfc) D Dcounter s like(stdint) D Dseednum s like(stdint) D Drandnum s like(stddouble) Dfeedbackcode s like(stdfc) D C open seedpf C open randpf C C read seedrec C eval seednum = %rem(seedfld:factor) C for counter = 1 by 1 to times C callp randnum_gen(seednum:randnum:feedbackcode) C eval randfld = randnum C write randrec C endfor C eval seedfld = seednum C update seedrec C close randpf C close seedpf C eval *inlr = *on Maybe I am blinding myself here, but with using the C API, I do not see any way of setting a range. Has anyone else performed such an operation before? 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