Not an ordinary list of numbers

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#1

I’m trying to generate a list of numbers, but the numbers musn’t follow up each other.
I hope the images below can explain what I mean. Lets say I want to print 180 tickets, numbering from 1 to 180. I can print 6 numbered tickets on a single sheet of paper, so I would need 30 sheets.
I want applescript to generate a list so that if I cut the stack, I get six stacks numbering from 1 to 30, 31 to 60 …
But the number of tickets can be a variable as the number of tickets on a sheet as well.

This is my beginning of the script but I have no figure how to accomplish my idea


set firstNumber to text returned of (display dialog "starting number" default answer "")
set finalNumber to text returned of (display dialog "ending number" default answer "")
--set quantityTickets to text returned of (display dialog "number of tickets" default answer "")
--set ticketsPerPrint to text returned of (display dialog "number of tickets on a single sheet of paper" default answer "")


set myList to {}
repeat with x from firstNumber to finalNumber
	set end of myList to x
end repeat
myList
#2

Hi,

a very very simple algorithm, it doesn’t consider any special cases


set firstNumber to "1" as integer -- text returned of (display dialog "starting number" default answer "")
set finalNumber to "180" as integer -- text returned of (display dialog "ending number" default answer "")
-- set quantityTickets to text returned of (display dialog "number of tickets" default answer "")
set ticketsPerPrint to "6" as integer -- text returned of (display dialog "number of tickets on a single sheet of paper" default answer "")


set pagesToPrint to ((finalNumber - firstNumber + 1) / ticketsPerPrint) div 1
set myList to {}
repeat with x from 1 to pagesToPrint
	set secondList to {}
	repeat with y from 0 to ticketsPerPrint - 1
		set end of secondList to pagesToPrint * y + x
	end repeat
	set end of myList to secondList
end repeat
myList
#3

thx, that worked for me.
Only had to round up the result of the division, else I don’t get enough numbers