>>Peter:
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>>Looks like you've got it "sussed".
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>Thank you! I also had to sus out what 'sussed' means :).
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have to suss :) I checked this word in the dictionary too... Ocassionally UT gives an opportunity to learn a new word...

Thanks.

>>I see that Excel's "Descriptive Statistics"can generate a normal distribution of numbers over a given output range of cells.
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>I hope that this thread will be helpful to others too, at some point in the future.
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>It was nice 'talking' to you.
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>BTW. Here's the formula that will generate 1000 somewhat normally distributed values between 4 and S*4.
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* pseudocode:
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>S = 6
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>for n = 1 to 1000
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>   V = CEIL( S * RAND() ) + CEIL( S * RAND() ) + CEIL( S * RAND() ) + CEIL( S * RAND() )
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>   insert into (sometable) value ( V )
>next

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