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Old March 21st, 2010, 12:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
Charles Williams
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Default How to get repeatable Excel RAND sequence?


I don't know of a way to seed the 2003 RAND function, or what the
algorithm is, but
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828795
may help.

When I want a repeatable sequence of random numbers I generate a
range using RAND() and then copy-paste values to freeze the results.

Is there any way to seed (initialize) the Excel 2003 RAND function so that
subsequent calls to RAND result in a repeatable sequence?