I need a number between 1 and 150 inclusive for a little raffle I am running : http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/win-trout-lights-for-5-support-team-bulheart

Suggestions from existing ticket holders will be treated with suspicion

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12

12

=RAND()*150

in excel.

use excel…

IanMunro spooky – just 5 seconds apart. :-O

buy a book of raffle tickets from post office for 20p, place in bucket, pick ticket.

anything computer based is not random

127 any good to you?

Random.org

http://www.random.org/

Or alternatively I can code you a near as damnit random number generator and would like to acquire ticket number 99.

12

IanMunro spooky – just 5 seconds apart. :-O

not realy just two inbreds who use their fingers to count 😆

not realy just two inbreds who use their fingers to coun

Why you!

(Shakes fist in fury)

“Shakes 20% larger fist then everyone else’s in fury”

FTFY

I actually worked out how to do this, I just felt guilty about bumping the original thread so much.

I have 30 tickets left to shift and am hoping to get the draw completed this week.

Please buy some (or some more), they make great valentine presents.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/win-trout-lights-for-5-support-team-bulheart

21 (but only ‘cos I’m naked)

Stoner – Member
=RAND()*150

in excel.

No!

Jammy111 – Member
use excel…

No!

I use random.org for some work. It’s pretty good as it’s taken from atmospheric data. You can specify the form of your data and how many random numbers. These options are chosen using GET so you can form a ULR to automate retrieval of random numbers and wack them into a txt file and then do what ever you want.

It’s pretty good as it’s taken from atmospheric data

finger in the air job, then?

The Brick – for the purposes of selecting a tombola ticket it suffices.

Yes it’s not truly random, but then FPU’s* cant be made to act randomly can they

* they do the maths calcs dont they?.

Out of interest what do you use random numbers for in your work?

Write a perl script

I know of 112 possible methods. That’s one hundred and twelve. One, one, two.

Aaand back in the room……

3

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Perl is evil.

Buy an Arduino board and a small LCD screen. Then just use the noise on the serial port and the randomseed() and random() functions to create a random number between the min and max numbers.

That puts up iDave’s random number count to 113.

If you’re making up a random number for your tax return, it’s a good idea for it to end in a seven.

Stoner – Member
The Brick – for the purposes of selecting a tombola ticket it suffices.

I think you will find tombola tickets are a very serious business.

Yes it’s not truly random, but then FPU’s* cant be made to act randomly can they

* they do the maths calcs dont they?.

It’s not something I know a huge amount about but algorithm to create sudo-random numbers is quite a field of research. All you can have is algorithm that produce sequences on numbers that look random so the computer is never really doing a random calc as such.

Out of interest what do you use random numbers for in your work?

It’s just a mathematical model which needs some random seeding. I pull then random number off the internet, seed the model run the model for a load of different seeding.

2 & 3/4

heres a couple

That is _not_ a good photo of Carol.

DD – actually if you’re making up any numbers for your tax return, be sure to follow Benfords law:

Benford’s law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many (but not all) real-life sources of data, the leading digit is distributed in a specific, non-uniform way. According to this law, the first digit is 1 about 30% of the time, and larger digits occur as the leading digit with lower and lower frequency, to the point where 9 as a first digit occurs less than 5% of the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford’s_law

One of my favouritest number phenomenons 🙂

One of my favouritest number phenomenons

Oooh, that’s cool. Actually, I’m pretty good about the TR (though when I started out, a bit younger and less organised, I was all over the place with them).

The “seven” rule is a quick rule of thumb for when I’m doing quotes. 😉

One of my favouritest number phenomenons

Yup, it’s great! I remember it bit on the radio, where there were saying about sets of figures being routinely processed for number distribution to detect fraud.

Anyway, back to the point.
We’ve clearly democratically established that the answer is 12.

Well for my TR, they’re certainly more likely to start with lower numbers, but there ain’t nothing random about that. 😡

Well for my TR, they’re certainly more likely to start with lower numbers

Undoubtedly – after all your turnover of £1,000,000 starts with a 1 compared to £9,000 for mine 🙂

Ian – unless you are using a different email address 12 is not the best number for you to suggest 😉

Undoubtedly – after all your turnover of £1,000,000 starts with a 1 compared to £9,000 for mine

I saw that one coming as soon as I posted 😕

Is anything ever truely random?

Is anything ever truely random?

[teenager]Spelling can be a bit random sometimes.[/teenager]

Paste the following into your browser address bar:

javascript:alert(Math.floor(150*Math.random()))

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