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Visual Basic Generate your own Random Numbers
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| Article by: | Thaha Hussain (10/12/2002) |
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| Summary: | This simple program generates random numbers using the basic mathematical methods. |
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Visual Basic Generate your own Random Numbers
This simple program generates random numbers using the basic mathematical methods. The methods are 1. Mixed Congruential 2. Multiplicative Congruential 3. Additive Congruential. Understand the simple mathematics involved! No API's used.
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Posted by :
 Archive Import (LaFollet) at 13:25 on Friday, April 18, 2003
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It doesn't really generate random numbers, if you put the same input in it always generates the same number, that's not very random...
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Posted by :
Archive Import (Deetch) at 04:18 on Thursday, June 26, 2003
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In VBA for Excel you can just use the Randomize function. In basic I always used computertime to get the startingpoint for the RND function
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Posted by :
 suresh at 14:46 on Monday, September 29, 2003
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hi,
i needed help in generating 6 random numbers from 1 to 49 in a array of labels. the numbers should be generated when the command button is clicked. the generated numbers should be in ascending order, the numbers should not be repeated.
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