Re: Seeding the rand() Generator

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:18:28 -0700, Fred Atkinson
<> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> I am coding in Python.
>
> I am accessing a MySQL database.
>
> I have a string to instruct the MySQL database to use the
> 'rand()' function to randomly choose one of the records in the
> database.
>
Which still doesn't tell us if you are using Python's random number
generator, or MySQL's random number generator. Show us some code and we
might be able to tell...

However, from the old MySQL brown book:

RAND()
RAND(N)
Returns a random floating-point value in the range 0 to 1.0. If an
integer argument N is specified, it is used as the seed value.
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