Random number generation

Darren Reely darren.reely@latticesemi.com
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:46:35 -0800


RANDOM does not work in quiz. You'll have to create it in QTP and work from
there.

Something I've done in the past is this:
  GLOBAL temporary mynum10 FLOAT       INIT  MOD(SYSTIME,10000)
  GLOBAL temp my10percent FLOAT SIZE 8 INIT  FLOOR(RANDOM(mynum10) * 10)

Darren


Lamers Mike wrote:
> 
> Hi, List!
> 
> Does anyone have a way to generate a random number in a define in Quiz?
> I need to generate a random sample from a population for auditing.
> 
> We're on Version 7.10.G2 in OpenVMS version 7.1