This challenge is in the realm of probility. I would allude to that fact that it possible to determine a theoretical expectation over the long haul, but tune in for statistics for that.
Linda -----Original Message----- From: programming-boun...@jsoftware.com [mailto:programming-boun...@jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Kip Murray Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 5:47 AM To: Programming forum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Many Turkey Rolls - No embargo We are getting into descriptive statistics. Instead of a simple frequency distribution you can group the data into classes and report the number in each class. Google "stem and leaf plot" and "five number summary". This is going beyond Linda's prescription, and we should hear what she suggests. On 12/7/2011 3:20 AM, Ric Sherlock wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Ric Sherlock<tikk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Linda Alvord<lindaalv...@verizon.net> wrote: >>> For number 2 each time you toss the dice, you must get a total for all the >>> 500 dice. Next you toss the full bucket of dice 199 more times. Make a >>> frequency distribution of the 200 results. >> >> If I implement this description of number 2 I get almost 200 different >> sums of the 200 throws of 500 dice, i.e. almost all of the sums have a >> frequency of 1 (the odd one has 2 or 3). >> >> platonic=: 4 6 8 12 20 >> sumtoss=: [: +/ ?@$ >> fd=: [: /:~ ({. , #)/.~ >> fd 500 200 sumtoss platonic > > Sorry sumtoss should be: > sumtoss=: [: +/ 1 + ?@$ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
