Re: Rearrangement of a sequence into random order
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- Subject: [mg28443] Re: Rearrangement of a sequence into random order
- From: "Lawrence A. Walker Jr." <lwalker701 at earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 03:26:31 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Morgan State University, COMSARE
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Hi Loren, Just install the following package: << DiscreteMath`Permutations` Then execute ... RandomPermutation[20] That's it. Lawrence "Loren Dill" <lorendill at mediaone.net> wrote in message news:9bjg9m$gsn at smc.vnet.net... > Hi, > > I'm a math teacher, and need to prepare exams from time to time. I > typically prepare questions for the exam in a sequential order starting at > the beginning of the material and going to the end. I may have something > like 20 short-answer questions. I want a program that will randomize the > order of the questions. In other words, I want to provide n, the number of > questions, and have the program provide a list of length n that contains all > the numbers from 1 to n in a random order without any number being repeated > or omitted. I'm sure that this is an easy task for Mathematica, but I can't > figure out the best way to do it. > > Loren Dill > > >