App request: put a sequence of numbers in random order

There are lots of random number generators in App World, but what I need is different. Say you have a regular sequence of numbers, from 1 to N. Re-arranging them in random order is the equivalent of writing each number, from 1 to N, on a piece of paper, throwing the pieces of paper in a box and pulling them out one by one. I don't need anything fancy in terms of UI or customization (it's always from 1 to whatever), just something that works. Even Excel doesn't do this.

Anybody up for a challenge? TIA

I found a link to how to potentially do it in excel

Shuffle a list of numbers / items in excel spreadsheet | Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1641440,00.asp

Originally Posted by ALToronto

There are lots of random number generators in App World, but what I need is different. Say you have a regular sequence of numbers, from 1 to N. Re-arranging them in random order is the equivalent of writing each number, from 1 to N, on a piece of paper, throwing the pieces of paper in a box and pulling them out one by one. I don't need anything fancy in terms of UI or customization (it's always from 1 to whatever), just something that works. Even Excel doesn't do this.

Anybody up for a challenge? TIA

I would like to try this. I'll keep you posted on what I come up with.

You can do this in BASIC for PlayBook

constant N 50
array numbers N

for a = 1 to N
numbers(a) = a
next a

for a = 1 to N
b = integer(random(N)) + 1
t = numbers(b)
numbers(b) = numbers(a)
numbers(a) = t
next a

' the array numbers now contains the numbers 1 to N shuffled randomly

for a = 1 toi N
print numbers(a)
next a

Originally Posted by GinaWrite

You can do this in BASIC for PlayBook

BASIC for PlayBook? Wow. Nice. Downloading.

Now someone should port Haskell to PlayBook. That'd be cool.