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Re: Randomizing

Roger Harman wrote:
I have a file of sequence #'s I need to randomize. Could be anywhere
from 500 to 50,000 #'s. I can do it brute force by generating random
#'s in the range needed and plucking them from the master file and write
to an outfile until I hit every occurrence, but there has to be a better
(more efficient) way. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

What does 'random' mean? Pseudorandom numbers involve duplicates, this sounds as if you can't allow duplicates. It almost sounds like you want to sort your sequence numbers in a non-uniform way. Consider CEERAN0, the C function rand(), the SQL function RAND().
--buck

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