>Peter:
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>Looks like you've got it "sussed".

Thank you! I also had to sus out what 'sussed' means :).

>I see that Excel's "Descriptive Statistics"can generate a normal distribution of numbers over a given output range of cells.

I hope that this thread will be helpful to others too, at some point in the future.

It was nice 'talking' to you.

BTW. Here's the formula that will generate 1000 somewhat normally distributed values between 4 and S*4.

* pseudocode: 

S = 6

for n = 1 to 1000

   V = CEIL( S * RAND() ) + CEIL( S * RAND() ) + CEIL( S * RAND() ) + CEIL( S * RAND() )

   insert into (sometable) value ( V )
next

Each CEIL( S * RAND() ) produces an integer 1-6, like when throwing a dice.