CTAN has a new package: rangen

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Wed Sep 30 20:13:10 CEST 2009


This should be at your local mirror within a day.

Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: rangen
Version number: 1.3e
Author's name: D. P. Story
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/rangen
Summary description: The rangen package is a package that generates random integers, 
  rational numbers, and decimal number.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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The rangen package is a package that generates random
integers, rational numbers, and decimal number. Actually,
the package uses the lcg package (by Erich Janka) to
generate random integers, while rangen builds rational
numbers and decimal numbers from the generated integers. My
purpose in writing this package was to be able to create
random questions for the quizzes of exerquiz (part of AeB).
Indeed, that is what you can do with this package: Write a
quiz question based on a template (for example,
differentiate $\a x^{\n}$ , where \a and \n are RVs (random
variables) generated with rangen), determine if the user
input is correct, and display the correct answer to the
question.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rangen
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/rangen
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .



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