Comments on: Blogger Tip: Cool Tool for Random Drawings

By: Ben Popken

Ben Popken — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:31:02 +0000

I used to split photons with my particle accelerator and count the random radioactive isotopes, but this method seems a little simpler.

JLP — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:12:30 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I never even considered using Excel. However, I think it just as easy to use Random.org.

Ralph Morgan — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:56:46 +0000

Just list your entries in excel and the then use the RAND() and INT() functions!

eg. To pick a random number between 1 and 46 you use:
=INT(RAND()*46)+1

You can press F9 to manually pick another random number, or just replicate the formula into as many cells as you want numbers.