Matching random numbers
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- Subject: [mg4615] Matching random numbers
- From: "A. Ortiz-Tapia" <ao202 at cus.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 03:25:31 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Dear mathgroupers, 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*. I would like to have some comments Arturo Ortiz-Tapia Dept Theoretical Chemistry Cambridge University, UK ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====