I have searched the internet and TH-cam to find a formula that will pair numbers without repeat over several columns. This is the closest I have found but only for one time. I want to have for example 20 teams (that would be my column 1 through 20) play over 12 weeks (that would be my rows, week 1 through 12). Using 20 as the example I know that there are 190 possibilities of teams playing without meeting each other again during the season. I have not figured out how to get this into an array.
I got this formula ''=INDEX(UNIQUE(RANDARRAY(B2^2,1,B3,B4,TRUE)),SEQUENCE(B2))''from your file, but it only work in rows. How to make it work in columns format??
take can be also used instead of sequence and index =LET( min;B2; max;B3; size;B4; population;max-min+1; is_valid;AND(max>=min+1;population>=size); result;IF( is_valid; TAKE(UNIQUE(RANDARRAY(size^2;;min;max;TRUE));size); "invalid input"); result )
Literal life saver, the only video which fixed my issue with the "unique" function not providing the amount of results I want.
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Thanks Chester. Selecting names from a list of volunteers was exactly what I was trying to do, so thanks very much for posting.
Excellent tutotial. Very useful the RANDARRAY function. Thank you Chester!!!
Thankl you so much... You saved me.
Amazing, thanks a lot 🙏
Fantastic stuff!!
I have searched the internet and TH-cam to find a formula that will pair numbers without repeat over several columns. This is the closest I have found but only for one time. I want to have for example 20 teams (that would be my column 1 through 20) play over 12 weeks (that would be my rows, week 1 through 12). Using 20 as the example I know that there are 190 possibilities of teams playing without meeting each other again during the season. I have not figured out how to get this into an array.
ok..how do you get it to list ALL possible 8 number combos?
I got this formula ''=INDEX(UNIQUE(RANDARRAY(B2^2,1,B3,B4,TRUE)),SEQUENCE(B2))''from your file, but it only work in rows. How to make it work in columns format??
take can be also used instead of sequence and index
=LET(
min;B2;
max;B3;
size;B4;
population;max-min+1;
is_valid;AND(max>=min+1;population>=size);
result;IF(
is_valid;
TAKE(UNIQUE(RANDARRAY(size^2;;min;max;TRUE));size);
"invalid input");
result
)
How about for old version of excel..