Can someone explain this?

[Lord_Piot]

type =rand(150,6) in microsoft word and press enter.

 

[soulskier]

no., but woah.

 

[Leckett]

you get 150 paragraphs with random sentences in each paragraph

 

[Leckett]

sorry 150 paragraphs with 6 random sentences in each

 

[skiSU]

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

 

[wskibum176]

=rand(150,6)

 

[sneather]

wtf ..... theres like 3 and a half pages of: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

 

[Beamer12]

wierd shit

 

[Capt.Flannel]

it's a tool for kids to learn that every letter of the alphabet can be used. Why it's so excessive? not sure.

 

[wskibum176]

no worky

oh im an idiot, did nt it say in microsoft word?

 

[wskibum176]

8,100 words

41,000 character

 

[zepscratch]

must have been some thing the programers decided to throw in for kicks

 

[yeti]

i dont know why it happens to the rest of you, but i know it happens to piot because he went to amsterdam and didnt get a hooker.

 

[s.jeff]

whoa thats pretty crazy

 

[Mr.Bob_Dobalina]

oh, well now that explains it

 

[PooterCrunk69]

rand is used in programing so its got something to do with that like if you look at calcu;lator games, like the way they are written, there are alot of rand things in it

 

[Shadows]

rand mcnally? or something like that

 

[SkiMN]

he nailed it, I checked, every letter of the alphabet is in there

 

[steevner]

wierd

 

[steevner]

try:

=rand(150,100)

i got 177 pages

 

[Lord_Piot]

haha i didnt need to yeti i fucked this french chick in the shower that was staying at the same hostel as me.

wasent the same after i saw 2 d00ds walk out of the room of the hooker i was gonna get.

 

[Gnarshred]

that sentance is what they use to display fonts...Like if you go into your fonts folder and ope up a random on, it will open a document with that sentance written in a few sizes.

as for why it shows up in ms Word when you write that command...

i dunno, sounds like an easter egg, but a pointless one.

anyone remember that one in like word 97 where you like typed red in red font and you got some game??

 

[CooksCorner]

The "=rand" part refers to the sentence.

The first number in the parenthesis is the number of paragraphs.

The second number in the parenthesis is the number of sentences.

For example: =rand(1,1) produces: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

 

[Poormansvault]

I can. As has been mentioned, that is one of a few sentences that contains every letter in the alphabet, and is used to test printers. I don't think it is used so much anymore, but back when printers and especially typewriters were kind of spotty, it was a quick and easy way to see what letters didn't work or come out clearly.

 

[Myfirstname.]

wow thats pretty cool

 

[t4thoroski]

crazy

 

[freestyler540]

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

..mmmh, that sentence uses all the 26 letters in our alphabet. Otherwise I don't don't what the hell that is...

 

[yeti]

haha its not like you're flush with bitches ;-)...and french bitches are nasty haha

 

[Lord_Piot]

haha no they arent. stop thinking of eurotrip and go see the real thing.

 

[dowalibeast]

=rand(100,100) didn't do anything for me.

 

[Itsbackfliptime]

rand(x, y) is function

the equals probably lets word know to run the function instead of typing it. The x and y parameters are for number of paragraphs and sentences in each paragraphs. It's probably there to calculate how many pages papers will be or something.

 

[Stan_Darsh]

i cant explain that but how did you find that out

 

[J.Bass]

really how did you? i got 14 pages

 

[hk_]

Yeha,that was cool

 

[Paul-o-Rama]

that makes me randy

 

[k2yeags]

cool

 

[dat_ski_dude]

i bet it was bill gate's idea

 

[ski_cartel]

now it all makes sence