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Re: Keeping track of choices
« Reply #5 on: Mar 18th, 2015, 7:21pm »
Thanks very much both of you for taking the trouble to offer me solutions, much appreciated. Your explanation, Stripey, was very helpful.
Richard, I think you are giving me credit for more intelligence than I possess!
I was mainly looking for a solution to prevent me from choosing the same number twice. I haven't reached the great scale of shuffling a 52 pack of cards with 4 suits yet, whatever impression I may have given you, but, one day...........
Seriously though folks, thanks again to both of you.
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Re: Keeping track of choices
« Reply #6 on: Mar 18th, 2015, 8:30pm »
I was mainly looking for a solution to prevent me from choosing the same number twice.
I hope you haven't misunderstood. The solution to preventing you from choosing the same number twice is to use a shuffle. I listed the code to do it, linked to two other threads with more detail, and pointed to a Wiki article. What more can I do to persuade you to do this in the simple way?
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I haven't reached the great scale of shuffling a 52 pack of cards with 4 suits yet
Shuffling 52 items is no harder than shuffling 5 (just change every 5 to 52 in the code I listed) so I don't really understand what you are meaning with that comment.
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