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Re: A program needed

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From: cromwell
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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Date: 8 Aug 92 10:01:30 CDT
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