http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T19:10:22 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/functa61.htm#26259 Getting a truly random number isn't easy. This macromedia blog entry should be of use to anyone who is using rand.<br /><br />http://www.markme.com/cantrell/archives/004256.cfm<br />Thank you Christian Cantrell!<br /><br />Since I am java-phobic, though, if anyone knows how to seed the PRNG with something from PRNGD or EGD or a /dev/random, I'd love to see that. bizarrojack 0 0 2005-01-06T09:12:56 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/functa61.htm#21557 You could try something like randomize(right(getTickCount(), 9)). Terry Luedtke 0 0 2004-09-21T14:58:28 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/functa61.htm#4223 This function does no longer work with GetTickCount() as a parameter since it does only take integers as parameter. In CF 5 samples GetTickCount was often used to initialize the randomize function. 0 0 2003-11-27T02:36:32