Creating Exclusive Numbers

I come again defeated to the NI Discussion board!
Let's say I want to use LabVIEW to do 10 different calculations. These calculations are running together at the same time in their own little loops. The catch is the calculations must be performed with ONLY the numbers 1-8 and at any given time a number cannot be used in more than one calculation. If it can't exclusively grab one of the 8 numbers, it waits for the number to finish in another calculation.
How would I achieve this? I've tried using semaphores, thinking I could use some kind of shared variable and use the error in and outs to control access to each of the 8 numbers. I can get it work by using 8 different semaphores, but the problem is in my application there are 40 numbers that can only be used 1 at a time and not 8 so using 40 semaphores just seems overkill.
Thanks guys! And have a great weekend folks!
-- Jason
Message Edited by jmpugh on 03-10-2007 01:33 PM

Done in the LabVIEW 1.2 days.
We created an exclusive random number generator. It took a range of numbers, such as your 1-40, and randomized the order of the numbers, using each number just one time.
I am not sure how you would use this for your lockout but it may give you some ideas.
This is a LV5.1 version which can be opened in any newer version. (Well, the Forum made me add a .vi extension, so I won't guarantee it will work with all the old versions).
Lynn
Attachments:
EXCLUSIVE RANDOM.vi ‏26 KB
New Random Integer.vi ‏42 KB

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