Excel fomula
Can anyone help with this?
I wish to use say 16 numbers in groups of 4 on 5 seperate occasions and not have the same number apear twice with any other numer used previously? Is this able to be done or am I expecting too much! |
Excel fomula
Hmmm... 5 groups of 4 numbers out of 16 without duplication isn't
possible (you'd need at least 20). You might find one of the techniques here helpful: http://mcgimpsey.com/excel/udfs/randint.html In article , xpert 1 <xpert wrote: Can anyone help with this? I wish to use say 16 numbers in groups of 4 on 5 seperate occasions and not have the same number apear twice with any other numer used previously? Is this able to be done or am I expecting too much! |
Excel fomula
Thanks JE McGimpsey, that sort of helps but it still is useing the same
number more than once. Where I am trying to use this is in the form of a golf trip with 16 players playing in groups of 4 over 5 days, so as not to have anyone of the 4 in the group playing with someone they have already played with over the 5 days of golf, that is so everybody plays with someone once only? -- Thanks from down under!! "xpert 1" wrote: Can anyone help with this? I wish to use say 16 numbers in groups of 4 on 5 seperate occasions and not have the same number apear twice with any other numer used previously? Is this able to be done or am I expecting too much! |
Excel fomula
I really don't know any formulaic way to do this in XL.
In article , xpert 1 wrote: Thanks JE McGimpsey, that sort of helps but it still is useing the same number more than once. Where I am trying to use this is in the form of a golf trip with 16 players playing in groups of 4 over 5 days, so as not to have anyone of the 4 in the group playing with someone they have already played with over the 5 days of golf, that is so everybody plays with someone once only? |
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