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Re: simple question about random

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• Subject: [mg58960] Re: simple question about random
• From: ggroup at sarj.ca
• Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 01:12:14 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi David,

Why wouldn't a Do/For loop work?  The following seem to work just fine,
even if they are somewhat bulky and inefficient.

rand={};
Do[rand=Prepend[rand,Random[]],{6}];

rand1={};
For[i=1,i=6,i++,rand1=Prepend[rand1,Random[]]];

I personally would use Table or RandomArray, but...

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