bob gailer wrote:
On 2/20/2010 7:43 AM, AG wrote:
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Please let me know how I can clarify my question
1 - You are giving way too much information. We do not need to know
the rules of the game or all the code. Our time to read email is
limited. The less you tell us that is not relevant the better.
Thanks Bob.
Also you don't show the code for the "next level of complexity".
Here it is, then:
import random
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import math
def flipCoin():
coinToss = random.randrange(1, 3)
return coinToss
toss_list = []
tosscounts = []
winnings = []
for i in range(0, 10):
while flipCoin() != 2:
toss_list.append("Tails")
flipCoin()
print
print "Heads"
tosscounts.append( len(toss_list))
if toss_list == 0:
print "You won $2"
winnings += 2
else:
toss_list.append( "Tail" )
winnings += [2 ** len( toss_list )]
print
print tosscounts
print winnings
print "Here's the graph: "
for i in winnings: # Convert int to float for log
i * 1.0
plt.plot( [tosscounts], [winnings] )
plt.ylabel( "how often" )
plt.xlabel( "how much" )
plt.show()
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The result of the first call to flipCoin is ignored.
Each cycle of the loop results in 2 calls to flipCoin. The result of
the 2nd call is ignored.
Aha! Thanks for spotting that. Now fixed in the code cited above, but
still gives the same problem.
Thanks for any further ideas.
AG
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