Re: The two dices
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- Subject: [mg54497] Re: The two dices
- From: Mark Fisher <mark at markfisher.net>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 04:22:55 -0500 (EST)
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Apparently, dice[] + dice[] gets converted to 2 dice[] for n >= 250. To get around this, you can define twodice[] := dice[] + dice[] --Mark. Antoine wrote: > 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 > >