Re: Rearrangement of a sequence into random order
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- Subject: [mg28450] Re: [mg28434] Rearrangement of a sequence into random order
- From: Tomas Garza <tgarza01 at prodigy.net.mx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 03:26:39 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <200104180723.DAA17248@smc.vnet.net>
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The add-on package DiscreteMath`Permutations` provides what you need. E.g.,
In[1]:=
Needs["DiscreteMath`Permutations`"]
In[2]:=
RandomPermutation[20]
Out[15]=
{10, 20, 9, 13, 6, 1, 16, 2, 12, 3, 18, 7, 19, 14, 11, 4, 15, 17, 8, 5}
Tomas Garza
Mexico City
----- Original Message -----
From: "Loren Dill" <lorendill at mediaone.net>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg28450] [mg28434] Rearrangement of a sequence into random order
> 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
>
>
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- From: "Loren Dill" <lorendill@mediaone.net>
- Rearrangement of a sequence into random order