Python homework

Wed Dec 6 20:18:10 EST 2017

On Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 9:28:26 PM UTC+11, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> On 12/05/2017 07:33 PM, nick.martinez2--- via Python-list wrote:
> > I have a question on my homework. My homework is to write a program in which the computer simulates the rolling of a die 50
> > times and then prints
> > (i). the most frequent side of the die
> > (ii). the average die value of all rolls.
> > I wrote the program so it says the most frequent number out of all the rolls for example (12,4,6,14,10,4) and will print out "14" instead of 4 like I need.
>> How did you come up with 4? I come up with 3.36 with those numbers.
>> > This is what I have so far:
> > import random
> > 
> > def rollDie(number):
> > rolls = [0] * 6
>> For a small efficiency use "[0] * 7". See below for reason.
>> > for i in range(0, number):
> > roll=int(random.randint(1,6))
> > rolls[roll - 1] += 1
>> Use "rolls[roll] += 1" here. You save one arithmetic instruction each 
> time through the loop. Fifty times isn't much saving but imagine fifty 
> million.
>> > return rolls
>> return rolls[1:]. No matter how many rolls you only need to do the 
> slice once. However, you really need a lot of iterations before it 
> really affects the total run time.
>> You need one more thing though. Create a new variable called "total" 
> and set it to 0.0. Add "total += roll" to your loop. your return 
> statement is now "return rolls[1:], total/number".
>> > 
> > if __name__ == "__main__":
> > result = rollDie(50)
>> Now "result, average = ..."
>> > print (result)
> > print(max(result))
>> This is why you get 14. The maximum number of rolls for any one side is 
> 14 for side 4. Is that where you got "4"?
>> -- 
> D'Arcy J.M. Cain
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The 'four' is the number which was rolled the highest during the 50 rolls