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Dear List members I am trying to find a way to generate a random point in a circle centred in a geographical location. So far I have used the following formula (see code below): random_x = original_x + radius*cos(angle) random_y = original_y + radius*sin(angle) where radius is a random number between 0 and the radius of the circle and angle is between 0 and 360 degrees The code bellow works fine however some people argue that this method will produce uneven locations? I really do not understand why. Another option will be to use the...

I have not been able to get DB migrations to work at all in Rails 1.0 for me. On multiple platforms I continually get the same errors. It took me awhile to figure out some initial things, such as Migrations don''t seem to support Enum column types, and doesn''t really support Foreign key relationships (the constraints at least). After changing my DB schema to jive more with the