Re: average of the consecutive coin tosses
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- Subject: [mg121978] Re: average of the consecutive coin tosses
- From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 04:51:45 -0400 (EDT)
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Mean[RandomInteger[{0,1},{1000}]
Regards,
Ssezi
On Oct 6, 2011, at 4:18 AM, michael partensky wrote:
> Hi.
>
> What are the better ways of doing what this guy does very inefficiently for
> the average of the consecutive coin tosses:
>
> tr = (flips = 1; (#/flips++) & /@ Accumulate[Table[toss, {1000}]]) // N);
>
> where
>
> toss= RandomInteger[];
>
> Thanks
> Michael
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- average of the consecutive coin tosses
- From: michael partensky <partensky@gmail.com>
- average of the consecutive coin tosses