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[random sorting] (was: org table: one column of random numbers (but natu


From: Uwe Brauer
Subject: [random sorting] (was: org table: one column of random numbers (but natural ones))
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 13:19:33 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>>> "SB" == Stig Brautaset <stig@brautaset.org> writes:

   >> > In row 67 you would have a random integer in the range [0..67)
   >> > f0 format removes any fractional part leaving only an integer number
   >> 
   >> Aha thanks, a minor thing, which I thank, cannot be really done:
   >> 
   >> Is it possible to avoid number repetition?
   >> 
   >> So I want a random sequence of the column 67 but I don't want numbers to
   >> be repeated.

   > To avoid duplicates you could generate a sequence from [0..67), shuffle
   > it[1], then use the row number as an index into that list. (Or pop off the
   > front.) How to do that from an org table function I have no idea,
   > however.

Thanks I tried in a row of 33
$5=random([0..34]);f0
$5=random([0..34));f0
$5=random([0..33));f0

But random repeats, however org-table-sort-lines sorts anyway
And what I truly needed is a random sorting of sorts.

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