Thankyou..!!!
Regards, Nithya On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Luke Pettit <petl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Arrr thats better Nithya it works fine now. I had it working fine before > it was just coming up with that strange result of 73 and 100 > when I copied the code into wing to check it out in order to understand it. > Wing picked up the spacing and I had already corrected > that Dave as I was simply looking at Nithya code. > > > On 16 November 2010 19:10, Nithya Nisha <nithyakarpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> This is the Code. Please check it.It is working fine. >> >> >>>import random >> >>>headsCount = 0 >> >>>tailsCount = 0 >> >>>count = 1 >> >>> >> >>>while count <= 100: >> >>> coin = random.randrange(2) >> >>> if coin == 0: >> >>> headsCount += 1 >> >>> else: >> >>> tailsCount += 1 >> >>> count += 1 >> >>> >> >>>print "The number of heads was", headsCount >> >>>print "The number of tails was", tailsCount >> >>> >> >>>raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.") >> >> >> ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ >> * >> Your Description *: >> >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org> wrote: >> >>> When I run this code (I'm also a noob) I get this result:- >>>> >>>> [evaluate lines 1-22 from untitled-1.py] >>>>>>> >>>>>> The number of heads was 73 >>>> The number of tails was 100 >>>> >>>> Press the enter key to exit. >>>> >>>> # Surely, if flipping a single coin 100 times your total number of heads >>>> and >>>> tails should add up to 100 >>>> # not 173 or am I missing the point? >>>> >>>> >>>> No, you're missing an indentation. If you check the code you're >>> running, I think you'll find that you didn't unindent the line incrementing >>> count. >>> >>> Of course, it's less error prone to simply use >>> for count in xrange(100): >>> >>> instead of while count < 100: >>> >>> and you wouldn't need to increment count. >>> >>> DaveA >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> With Regards, >> Nithya S >> >> > > > -- > Luke Pettit >
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