5 Ways To Generate Random Numbers On Your Mac

[@bizobravo7096]

You are probably the most brilliant most brightest most intelligent person I know when it comes to all things Apple. I sincerely love your content because I am guaranteed to learn something new everytime I watch your videos. Excellent content.

[@jgs2207]

Love the checkbox method to force random numbers to regenerate. (1:46) Thank you Gary. I missed this info the first time i saw it!

[@Erin-Thor]

All of us just discovered a new way to pick lottery numbers. 🤣👍🏽

[@keliblum6591]

Very random but very useful. Thanks

[@HHanna-sx9bn]

very useful and informative video !thanks

[@aminaljunid]

Useful tips! thanks! Any tips and tricks for the latest Magic Mouse? i just bought it and was wondering if i could use it more efficiently with my workflow.

[@macmost]

Just learn the gestures in System Preferences, Mouse. I'm a Trackpad user myself. One of the best things about Mac hardware is the superior Trackpad tech. More gestures with a Trackpad too.

[@johnphillips519]

I always click on like even before ive seen the video, As i just know its going to be good👍

[@desertpatient]

Thanks bunches

[@pissedmeoff]

amazing!! thank you gary

[@mojoblues66]

Wow, I didn't know the jot command, and I'm working on the UNIX command line since 1988!

[@Land-of-reason]

I presume that you mean pseudo random numbers. Presumably from a uniform distribution.

[@sundaynightdrunk]

Nice. I wonder what method it uses to obtain the number? I used to do contests for a popular forum, and a random number generator would decide the winner(s). There were always a few sore losers who would question whether the online source I was using to generate the number was doing so correctly, something to do with the way computers cannot "truly" generate a random number. I'm not sure if that's still a thing, as this was quite a few years ago.

[@macmost]

Basically very complex math formulas to simulate randomness. Even flipping a coin isn't truly random. Or rolling dice. If you really want to dig in: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generation

[@sundaynightdrunk]

@@macmost Man, I didn't realize it was that in-depth. Thanks again, Gary. Seems like it's "good enough" for most uses, but definitely not all uses.

[@CopyKat007]

Hi, thanks for the video! Do you know how to random 25 different words using Numbers? I know Windows Excel can, but I don’t know if Apple Numbers can. I want to make a custom bingo cards that I can design and print them myself. I know I can go to bingo card generator sites to do that. But not sure how to save them and use them with my design. Please advise! Thanks!

[@macmost]

Sure it can. Probably with the same functions that those Excel documents use. You can use random functions with tables that contain word lists, or what I would do is have a table of words and use a column of random numbers to sort them, then have another table that pulls each word in the new shuffled order into spots in the bingo card.

[@CopyKat007]

@@macmost Thanks for replying me! I'll try that but if you could please make another video of that that would be great. No rush! Thank you!

[@stephenbridges2791]

I've used Terminal for a good many years to pick lottery numbers. That's really all their machine does, anyway. Somewhere through the fog of memory I recall reading that the Mac selects the number according to the position of the wavelength of electricity that's running through it. Don't know why I (or anyone) would remember that.

[@loisskiathitis8926]

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️

[@ricwestdoesitwork]

Hope I finally win Power Ball now. LMBO!

[@edmundhayes7982]

Is there a way to generate a list of random numbers of, let's say, 25 numbers with no duplicates? So all numbers would only be listed once.

[@macmost]

That gets tricky. Do you have any programming experience? If not, it would be easier to just make more than 25 numbers in a spreadsheet and manually eliminate any duplicates.

[@edmundhayes7982]

@@macmost No programming experience (or maybe very little experience). Sometimes I need to generate random numbers for studies, assigning people to different arms of a study. I can't have duplicates. No worries, I will get my statistics people to help. The problem is they all use PCs. Thank you

[@macmost]

@@edmundhayes7982 That's actually a random sort you want. You have the names in a table, then in another column use RANDOM to get random decimals. Then sort by those random numbers. Now they are in a random order, so just assign the first X people to one thing, the next X people to another, etc.

[@edmundhayes7982]

@@macmost I will give it a try. Thanks for all the help.

[@doctorarvindram]

How can we generate random numbers with decimal

[@macmost]

Using which method? In Numbers? Describe the number you need and why as that would impact the solution.

[@doctorarvindram]

In number , say I would like random numbers from 45 to 90 with random decimals and it could represent time

[@macmost]

@@doctorarvindram Still not clear on what you want. So a random number between 45 and 90, but with decimals like 45.34783493, 76.92738 and 89.3943434?

[@talmanl]

If the calculator’s RAND is between 0 and 1, then the way to get a random number between 1 and 6 would be 1 + 5*RAND. Not what you gave.

[@iteddie9202]

this is almost how you do it on iPhone

[@angelopetrelli1083]

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