In article <38EFE55D.ADB3B7E5@fcmail.com>, CMcCabe 
<dea### [at] fcmailcom> wrote:

> i'm sort of assuming that i have something wrong with the way i'm using
> the random number generator, but i'm not entirely sure
> basically i'm trying to assign a random value to that position of the
> array

As Ken explained, you need to pre-declare the seed:
#declare RS = seed(802);
#declare RNum = int(rand(RS));

However, if this is the code you are using, I think you will be running 
into another problem. The int() function operates like this(quoted from 
the manual):

"int(A)
 Integer part of A. Returns the truncated integer part of A. Rounds 
towards zero."

Since the rand() function returns float values between 0 and 1 
inclusively, you will get 0 most of the time, maybe all of the time. You 
need to at least include a multiplier in there:
#declare RNum = int(rand(RS)*Mult);
where Mult>1.

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