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Matching random numbers

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• 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


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