Tony Noyeaux wrote: > How can you control randomness... lets say for fish. > > CatfishBreedA > Can be say, 4inches, to 24inches long > Most fish caught are say 7-14inches long > Maybe 1 in 1000 catfish caught are say, 16-20 inches long > Maybe 1 in 10000 catfish caught are say, 20inches + > > How.. can you program that kind of randomness? > > Or another way to look at it. > > BasketballerA > Can score 4-45pts a game. > Most games, he scores 15-25 pts > Maybe 1 in 1000 games he scores 30 plus pts > Maybe 1 in 10000 he scores 45 pts.
This sounds a lot like a normal distribution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution You can generate normally distributed random variables with random.gauss() Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
