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i remember my graduate level class on simulation (engineering course, not math/cs) we had first assignment on generating 10000 random numbers a guy fired up e
by hs 18y ago
i remember my graduate level class on simulation (engineering course, not math/cs)
we had first assignment on generating 10000 random numbers
a guy fired up excel, generated rand in one cell, dragged to the bottom 10000, and gasp printed it
It was fun looking at flickering monitor, and humming laser printer - after a while, i felt sympathy for those devices
it took me less than 5 loc in matlab ... and being friendlier to trees as a bonus :D
and no, it's not a community college ... rather a top research engineering school ... but hey, things like this happen a lot
- etal 18y agoHey, it's still faster than a handful of dice and a blank notebook. Sometimes the point of a course's first assignment is to show students how wrong their preconceptions are.