Steve,
thanks for several things:
1) the terrific suggestion: it worked ☺
2) the alternative way to randomize location, that’s clever. Since I’m trying to get the numbers onto a conveyor belt, I’d rather have them generate to their location a little more predictably for this project.
3)thanks for clarifying my hierarchy of operations, I knew it was wrong to write it that way, but suspected that may be part of my problem in how I was thinking through it.
4) Really excited to try the expresso idea. In fact, I started there as it makes more sense, not only for the problem I posted, but especially for the next area of animation where I will need to direct each #, based on a range, into different silos and I hoped expresso could let me set the term for a range (i.e., .all #’s b/w 01¢-25¢ for one silo, all #’s b/w 26¢-99¢ for another and so forth) but i just could even get a toe hold on how to set up the nodes. I have tried the Cineversity site as well as YouTube – no luck yet – but I will be sure to try your suggestion.
Again, thank you.