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From: Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk>
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Subject: Re: Specific numbers but in a random sequence
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 17:14:30 +0100
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In article <mpro.ptk4an02tw93i02sz.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>, Steve
Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
> On 23 Jun, Richard Ashbery wrote in message

[snip]

> > 
> > > It would be better to leave
> > 
> > >   array%()=3,4,5,6,8 ...
> > 
> > > and then do
> > 
> > >   PRINT array%(RND(18) - 1)
> > 
> > No that doesn't work - it fails to take into account the last
> > number in the array (120). Ian's method does work with all
> > numbers being randomly displayed, albeit with some numbers
> > displayed consecutively.

> In which case, are you sure that you're running the same code that
> you've posted here?

Sorry Steve - it appears you are correct - I was running old code.
It's not a good way but to see all the displayed output I ran the
program from a TaskObey file but I forgot to save the edited code
first before running. 

Thanks for posting your program - the stats are really useful.

Apologies again

Richard