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Marco365
Apr 29, 2024Brass Contributor
Generate sets of five numbers base on the given numbers from 5 different columns
I color them just to show that the numbers stay in the same column, and still are in ascending order. Columns H to L or just N are a few examples of combinations I did manually to show the res...
mathetes
Apr 30, 2024Silver Contributor
I'm going to have to noodle and doodle on this a bit.
Do you really expect every possible combination of five digits, using just one from each column? And how many rows are we needing to accommodate? If numbers can be entered randomly in the various columns, is it permissible to have duplicates in any of the combinations? Etc.
In the meantime, can you tell me (and anybody else looking over our shoulders) what the context is, the "bigger picture," for this request. That, in addition to your re-written instructions, may help in the understanding.
And, for anybody looking over our shoulders, this thread actually is a continuation of this one :
- rachelApr 30, 2024Iron ContributorI think he just wants to do Cartesian product five times. eg
col_12 = torow(col1 & transpose(col2))
col_123 = torow(col_12 & col_3)
col_1234 =torow(col_123 & col_4)
col_12345 = torow(col_1234 & col_5)- Marco365Apr 30, 2024Brass ContributorHello Rachel, thank you for taking time to help me. I am hoping to take a bootcamp this year and excel is part of it. As of now, I am not sure how to apply this. I did attach a file and I am not sure if this can apply to the sheet. I am going to google the keyword "cartesian" to see what I can learn. Thanks