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How to create a random math problem in LaTeX?
I want to create a math problem-solution sheet. The coefficients a, b, c must be assigned on the fly at random so the generated pdf will show a numeric quadratic equation rather than a symbolic ...
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The effect of the anonymous letter
I'm trying to create an effect as if the text is made up of letters cut from magazines and newspapers and even the same words had different style. It is necessary that each letter in the word had a ...
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tikz: Distribute evenly and randomly circles
I want to fill a part of a picture with more or less evenly and randomly distributed circles which should not overlap. It would be okay if circles are only partly inside the shape.
The density should ...
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Generate random numbers with a specific font
My objective is to create a table or some form of environment as shown in the figure below.
The numbers should be randomly generated every time you compile and have the font shown below.
Is ...
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Selecting random elements from a comma separated list
I would like to have a command (either user-defined, or from a package, or whatever) that has the basic form:
\selectNrandom{N}{list, of, comma, separated, elements}{code to execute}
which will ...
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Generating a worksheet
My objective is to be able to generate worksheets in categories like:
Laws of Indices
Simultaneous Linear equations and
Quadratic equations
When I say generate is to generate for example 20 ...
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Accessing randomly selected problems via the probsoln package
I have two datasets, each containing problems dealing with a specific topic. These problems are stored in external files (again, one file per topic) and loaded into the datasets in a random order. I ...
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Toward a Stamper Package
Imagine that you want to simulate a hand stamp on every page in some large documents. It must be an imperfect print, with random page-to-page variations in ink intensity, fading, rotation and blur. ...
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How to draw a rectangle filled with random size circular pattern?
I wish to generate a rectangle with circular features present within (to represent water particles), something like this:
Which shows that the incoming radiation decreases with distance (as ...
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TikZ: decoration - random steps: how to get twice exactly the same shape?
I'm creating a beamer presentation, in which I use TikZ.
I am making a figure, on which I would like to highlight something (using \only<> command). My figure contains an ellipse that is ...
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Automatically generated BINGO cards
I am trying to automatically generate a series of BINGO cards. So, I need a 5 x 5 table with square cells that allow text wrapping. I also want to randomly assign a word to each cell from a "bank" ...
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Generating random numbers without repetitions
How do I generate in LaTeX a list of random integers, in a given range, avoiding repetitions? The command \pgfmathrandomitem selects an item from a list, but when inserted in a loop can select twice ...
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Random start of line
I would like to add a random white space at the begining of each line in a flushleft typeset paragraph. The idea is to simulate a hand-written manuscript.
I thought I could do trick lineno package ...
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Defining variables in TikZ
I'm trying to define random variables - for example to draw some random points of the form (r,r) when r is a random number. I tried \def\myrandomnumber{rnd}, but that seems to give me a new random ...
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Creating random problems by using rand option
I would like to generate random questions based on a random integer input. I have tried he code from a site online and tweaked it so that it generates more than one random problem but evidently it ...
