Fw: Randomizing records in a file

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Henrik, how did you get my lottery numbers?

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From:   Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:     "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, 

Date:   06/05/2012 03:56 PM
Subject:        Re: Randomizing records in a file
Sent by:        rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



Is this good enough

04974775470629857620120509522247
12057584000629868020120509522200
00196428800630680820120509522280
11228940600630692020120509522260
16922421760630701620120509522276
10465228800630711220120509522280
20575564800630720820120509522280
15691425280630730420120509522228
11310727680630740020120509522268
07282851840630749620120509522284
19638316800630758420120509522280
03431923200630768020120509522220
13774466560630777620120509522256
08332567040630787220120509522204
19345212160630796820120509522216
00591308800630806420120509522280
14253139200630816020120509522220
14090984960630825620120509522296
09197355520630834420120509522252

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Rory Hewitt <rory.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> All joking apart, height, hair color, eye color, first letter of name,
> length of name etc. all correlate fairly closely with some racial and/or
> ethnic characteristics. It's harder than you might think to find a
> 'pseudo-random' characteristic which really is random enough. Maybe day 
of
> birth (within month).
>
> I worked on one program which used the third letter in the surname as a
> 'randomizer'. It worked perfectly until it came to Mr Ng...
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:20 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > I vote for alphabetical by height.
> >
> > I think by descending hair color might be slightly better, though.
> >
> > John
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