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echo: quik_bas
to: DAVID WILLIAMS
from: ANDY HOLDING
date: 1998-04-20 12:41:00
subject: random letters

 DW> Bad idea! That means you're executing RANDOMIZE TIMER over
 DW> and over again, which not only wastes time but can actually
 DW> make the RNDs *less* like real random numbers!
You can't more or less random numbers on a computer they are never random its
just  a long  and complicated  series which the randomize timer tells it what
term to start at.
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