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Article #1144Re: A program needed
From: cromwell
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 15:01
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 15:01
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In article <14965@claris.com>, mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes: > In article <65164@hydra.gatech.EDU>, kh11@prism.gatech.EDU (HALL) writes: >> >> Does anyone know of a program that can take a list of people's names >> located in a file, then randomly pick, say, five names. It would then >> tag those names as "picked", then the next time around pick another five >> names randomly until all the names were picked. >> >> I know this is a strange request, but it's valid nonetheless. > > It would be almost trivial to do this in Hypercard--possibly depending > upon the number of names on the list to begin with. Although, you should watch out...some random functions are psudo-random functions that don't cut it for assigning random groups for scientific research. -- Rick
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!cromwell From: cromwell@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: A program needed Message-ID: <1992Aug8.100130.42210@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 8 Aug 92 10:01:30 CDT References: <65164@hydra.gatech.EDU> <14965@claris.com> Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 19