Re: Needing a Random List of Non-repeating Values whose Range and Length
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- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:15:09 -0500 (EST)
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On 1/18/13 at 12:54 AM, brtubb090530 at cox.net wrote:
>Consider the following:
>ril[range_Integer]:= RandomInteger[{1,range},range]
>This function is almost what I want; but I need one which doesn't
>include any repeated values. This is intended for use, for example,
>for a card deck, or dice, etc.
Perhaps you should look at RandomSample. For example, if you
associate the integers from 1 to 52 with the 52 possible cards
(excluding jokers) in a deck
RandomSample[Range@52,5]
would return 5 values representing a random 5 card draw from the deck