Sounds like some type of lottery scheme. The probabilities of winning a
lottery are pretty well known.

Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

ste mac wrote in message
om...
Hi Guys, l am new to this news group and was hoping somebody could
help me out with some macro code...
Picture the scene, l have in column A (rows 1 thru 10)a set of
ascending numbers upto a maximum of 10 digits (there could be only 6,
or 8 or 9 etc)...
then the same in column B and C and D and finally E...so it looks
something like this:

ColA Col B Col C Col D Col E Ex: generated pairs triples
quads
1 2 10 11 30 1-2 1-2-10
1-2-10-11
2 3 11 12 31 1-3 1-2-11
etc
3 4 12 13 32 1-4 1-2-12
4 5 13 14 33 - etc
5 6 14 15 34 -
6 7 15 16 -
7 8 16 17
8 9 17 18 33-34
18 19

There can be as many as 10 digits in any column and as low a 5
digits...
now, what l would really like to do is list all the unique 'pairs' of
digits that could be produced by all the digits in the range i.e
1-2...1-3...1-4 etc all the way up to 33-34... if this is not hard
enough on its own, l need the triples! i.e 1-2-3...1-2-4...1-2-5 etc
and to make matters even tougher l really need to quads to finish it
off (oh no!!)yep! i.e 1-2-3-4...1-2-3-5... 1-2-3-6...1-18-19-32 etc
etc...
l know that quads alone will produce something in the region of 15 to
20,000 records...so even though l am asking a lot, l would like the
results to be generated down a single column for the 'pairs' and
another for the 'triples' and finally one for the 'quads'...
l have to change the values in the columns once they have all been
generated to run the process again with a different set of numbers in
the columns, also l need something inbetween the generated numbers ie
a "-"...The numbers in the columns will be from 1(min) to 34(max)...
tough one? (nightmare!)

Thanks in advance for any help gratefully recieved...

seeya ste