topic Re: Does the rand function throw out previous samples or put them back? in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Does-the-rand-function-throw-out-previous-samples-or-put-them/m-p/401873#M149551 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am not sure if I understood what you are asking but as far as I know, RAND() will not throw out previous samples, so there is a likelyhood to get the same value twice returned from RAND().</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:13:29 GMT swuehl 2013-04-25T22:13:29Z Does the rand function throw out previous samples or put them back? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Does-the-rand-function-throw-out-previous-samples-or-put-them/m-p/401872#M149550 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a user that is using =rand()&lt;0.10+0*now() to pull a sample. A bookmark was created and turned into a button to select the sample. What we are wanting to know is that if the button is clicked more than once, does the previous sample get thrown out or does it throw all selections back in and select another random sample?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:28:14 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Does-the-rand-function-throw-out-previous-samples-or-put-them/m-p/401872#M149550 akile002 2013-04-25T16:28:14Z Re: Does the rand function throw out previous samples or put them back? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Does-the-rand-function-throw-out-previous-samples-or-put-them/m-p/401873#M149551 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am not sure if I understood what you are asking but as far as I know, RAND() will not throw out previous samples, so there is a likelyhood to get the same value twice returned from RAND().</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:13:29 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Does-the-rand-function-throw-out-previous-samples-or-put-them/m-p/401873#M149551 swuehl 2013-04-25T22:13:29Z