In this post, we look at How to Use RAND and RANDBETWEEN Function in Google Sheets. Previously I have posted about the logical functions in Google Sheets. The tutorial was about the logical functions which works out for the formula based work and you can do that in the spreadsheet.
In case of the random numbers, random number generation and also having a range for the randomness, you can make use of these two functions for the google spreadsheet. The same set of the functions would be working with the zoho sheet and the excel too. So you should check it out and this would help you establish a base from which you can use the formula in most of the operations where you need it.
Let's take a look at one of the tutorial where you can learn how to use RAND and RANDBETEEN function in Google Sheets.
Let's first take out the spreadsheet. And then you can make sure to select one cell so that we can test out some random data and it's relative operation.
You can use the below formula to get some random number generated in one of the cell.
=rand()
And that would show the result something like this.
0.7568614437
And now we can say that range between the randomness and then we can use the below function.
You can check out the random number generated in between the range.
=RANDBETWEEN(1,100)
You can also mix and match between the IF and Else type of the conditions for this type of the programs.
Take this example formula where you can see how this can be done.
=IF(RAND()<0.5, "Yes", "No")
This was one of the use case of the random number functions. Most of the people make use of it for their random cell data to be selected on certain condition.And you can also make use of the same for building the condition based spreadsheet where you can filter the data based on some random number based range too. You can find plenty of use case and also the variety of cases for the random number within the ranges.
I have seen most of the people making use of the range for certain geographic and other types of the options. I can tell you from the experience that when you make use of such formulas always pay attention to the ranges because you would notice that there are times when range has to be exact and not random on every refresh. You can control that sort of the issue if you choose the range within limited numbers. That would give you much better direction.
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