Re: Matching random numbers
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- Subject: [mg4638] Re: Matching random numbers
- From: browe at netcom.com (Bill Rowe)
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 03:54:55 -0400
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- 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:
>I have written the following program:
>
>In[3]:=
> (count = 0 ;
> Label[nextrandom];
> pileup = pileup + 1;
> x = Random[];
> y = Random[];
> a = Round[100*x];
> b = Round[100*y];
> If[a== b,Return[x], Goto[nextrandom]];
> If[count == 5000, Break[]];
>Goto[nextrandom])
>
>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*.
The exit condition for the loop occurs when a == b. The statement
Return[x] causes the loop to be exited and returns a single value, x.
To return the x,y pair, you could change the Return statement to Return[{x,y}].
BTW, this program seems to have some problems. It appears you intend for
the program to exit after 5000 tries. The variable count is set to 0 and
never incremented. So the If[count == 5000, Break[]]; statement the test
will always evaluate as false and the Break[] statement will never
execute.
The speed of the program would proabably benefit by using either the Do or
While constructs.
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