The two dices
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- Subject: [mg54486] The two dices
- From: "Antoine" <bugaboo12703 at yahoo.fr>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:44:57 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello,
I wanted to simulate the throws of two dices and something happened I can't
explain:
(Mathematica 5.0 , the same occurs on Mathematica 5.1 )
The following code is OK:
n=300;
theThrows = Table[Random[Integer, {1, 6}] + Random[Integer, {1, 6}], {n}];
theStats = Table[Count[theThrows, i], {i, 2, 12}]
the occurences, as n becomes greater and greater, looks like the Gaussian
curve
(sorry for my English)
Suppose you want your dice function, and that it is defined by
dice[]:=Random[Integer, {1, 6}] ( nothing wrong about it, I suppose )
Now the behavior of the following code changes depending on the value of n.
If n < 250 everything is fine ...
hen n >= 250, then there is no occurence of odd values.
( the two dices never give 3, 5, ....)
n=250;
theThrows = Table[dice[] + dice[], {n}];
theStats = Table[Count[theThrows, i], {i, 2, 12}]
Does a rationnal explanation exists ? Is it a bug ?
The two definitions ( see below ) of the dice function "makes" the code
running properly.
But, of course, I prefer the former definition.
dice:=Random[Integer, {1, 6}] ( not so nice, specially if you want to have
several dice functions)
dice[_]:=Random[Integer, {1, 6}] ( you must give a parameter to the
function, quite horrible )
Thank you for your help.
Antoine
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