Re: [libreoffice-users] random # in calc

At 15:49 14/11/2013 +0000, Tom Davies wrote:
> Computers don't usually do "random" very well.

Computers actually do (pseudo-)random extremely well.

> Prolly better to wait until everyone is together (or at least enough 
> of you that no-one is going to feel the results were "fixed") and 
> then draw names from a hat.

Three problems:
o It doesn't work: some people will draw themselves.
o You need to do it all twice.
o It still doesn't work: some people will draw themselves and some 
will have drawn each other.

> Print the names on slips of paper and then make a big show of 
> pulling out a name at random.  A twist is for the 1st winner to pick 
> the 2nd name and then the 2nd winner picks the 3rd slip.

There are no "winners" here: everyone is both a winner and a loser.

Brian Barker


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