nuary 26, 2001 3:03 PM
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> I hope you aren't serious... You ain't gonna get 36^8
> possible code values in no
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> website database, no how... even as a bit map string, over
> 300GB is requir
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> Nah the values are being stored in a transaction log type thing ...
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> Siggy
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> > Oops, 36^8 :)
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> > This value would only have to generated perhaps a f
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>From: phobo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>Oops, 36^8 :)
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>This value would only have to generated perhaps a few times an hour, but
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Nah the values are being stored in a transaction log type thing ...
Siggy
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> Oops, 36^8 :)
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> This value would only have to generated perhaps a few times
> an hour, but
> should't take more than a second to
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To: "Sigurd Magnusson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Indeed a very interesting question you put forward (and probably OOT too
:-)
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Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 7:26 AM
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> Do you mean W3E4-22ER would be valid? If so there would be 36^8
> (2,821,109,907,456) possible values.
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> A truly random generator algorithm cannot guarantee uniqueness. I'm
> guess
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>If one need to create multiple numbers per second (that is
>cal;culation time
>is critical), then I would suggest, in accordance to my
>previous letter,
>that one should pick
23, 2001 7:26 PM
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>Do you mean W3E4-22ER would be valid? If so there would be 36^8
>(2,821,109,907,456) possible values.
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>A truly random generator algorithm cannot guarantee uniqueness. I'm
>guessin
Indeed a very interesting question you put forward (and probably OOT too :-)
In programming there does not exist "The Best Way". "Best" always depends on
what you consider to be important and less important - that's why
programmers most often writes same piece of code in different ways, and
that'
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 1:26 PM
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> Do you mean W3E4-22ER would be valid? If so there would be 36^8
> (2,821,109,907,456) possible values.
>
> A truly random generator algorithm cannot guar
Do you mean W3E4-22ER would be valid? If so there would be 36^8
(2,821,109,907,456) possible values.
A truly random generator algorithm cannot guarantee uniqueness. I'm
guessing what you want is to generate each possible value once in a
pseudo-random order. Would just apparent randomness suf
My guess is that you would need to create the random number and then check
that number against a database of saved "random" numbers, to insure
uniqueness. If someone would like to critique it, please do
I wrote this just for you because I was curious...
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