Re: Matching random numbers
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- Subject: [mg4628] Re: Matching random numbers
- From: ags at seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 03:25:42 -0400
- Organization: Purdue University
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In article <4uphfg$6b5 at dragonfly.wolfram.com>,
A. Ortiz-Tapia <ao202 at cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>Dear mathgroupers,
>
>I have written the following program:
[ Program deleted ]
>The purpose of this program is to produce two inpendent random numbers;
>match this two numbers by "converting" them to integers, then if they
>are equal print either of them (I choosed x), *and* increment the value
>of a variable, such that at the end I can have 5000 "matched" random
>numbers. The program, so far, gives out *only one number*.
If I understand you correctly, an easy way would be to evaluate
Table[match[],{k,5000}]
where match[] is a function defined to return a single "matched"
value. For example:
match[] :=
Module[{x=Random[],y=Random[]},
While[Round[100x] != Round[100y],
x = Random[];
y = Random[]
];
x
]
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