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On 11/02/2012 03:13 PM, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote: > > Requirements for `account number` generator: > > 1. Issue pseudo random consistent number (must be unique for dozen millions of records) > 2. Easy check validity (without a need to make a database call) > > Interested? Read more here: > > http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/11/generate-account-number.html > > Comments or suggestions are welcome. Thank you for sharing. Your post came along at just the right time. I was just pondering on how to create a number that is unique each time (or most of the time), and unlikely to be guessed ahead of time. Your technique should work very well for me.
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Re: How to generate account number? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-11-03 08:50 -0600
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