Re: Random number generator without duplicates?
Re: Random number generator without duplicates?
- Subject: Re: Random number generator without duplicates?
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:38:08 -0300
At 9:43 AM -0400 18/04/01, Paul Skinner wrote:
The AppleScript user who asked for a suggestion as to how to generate a
list of 6 random numbers probably doesn't care about any of this.
That may well be the case.
A simple readable script that produces a list of 6 numbers that are not
repeated and fall between 1 and 56, and hopefully clarifies the process in
such a way as to teach the method of it's logic, would have benefited him
and others on this list much more that this digresive discussion of
mathematical theory.
I was not too much concerned with the original post but with the
fact that people were trying to "correct" Chris Espinosa's
explanation, which was perfectly correct. Maybe it's an unnecessary
digression in mathematical to you, but it's pretty clear that a lot
of people don't understand what the product of a random number
generator is supposed to be. It seems to me that they might be better
equipped if they know. YMMV.
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