Sorting by a randomSeed greater than the number of elements of a sample does
not help.
With the following in a fld 1: aaa,bbb,ccc
and this in a button:
on mouseUp
get fld 1
repeat 1000
sort items of it by random(3)
put it & return after lowSeed
end repeat
repeat 1000
sort items of it by random(3333)
put it & return after highSeed
end repeat
repeat with y = 1 to the number of lines of lowSeed
add 1 to lowSeedCounter[line y of lowSeed]
end repeat
repeat with y = 1 to the number of lines of highSeed
add 1 to highSeedCounter[line y of highSeed]
end repeat
end mouseUp
The distribution of the two groups is about the same.
Craig Newman
-----Original Message-----
From: Dar Scott <d...@swcp.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wed, May 22, 2013 3:59 pm
Subject: Re: randomly order a list
Try replacing 'the number of lines of myVar' with some huge number you think is
allowed for random(), say 999999.
With small numbers you are likely to get the same number for different lines
and
perhaps sort does not change order in that case.
Dar
On May 22, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote:
> I have a list of three words that I need to be randomly sorted. To start
> with,
the first word is the correct answer to a question. I want to re-order the list
so that the correct answer may be the second or third word, and not necessarily
the first. How can I do this successfully every time? The docs give an example
like this:
>
> sort lines of myVar by random(the number of lines of myVar)
>
> But this only seems to work successfully one time. After that, the list is
always set so the first word is the correct answer. So then I tried randomly
setting the randomSeed value, since this value is supposed to affect the
random() function and the any keyword, but this didn't seem to make much
difference except to change it so either the second or third word is *always*
the right answer. I need it to be more mixed up than that.
>
> So does anyone have a good way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
> --
> Chris Sheffield
> Read Naturally, Inc.
> www.readnaturally.com
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