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What you are looking at is a simulation whereby a coin having 2 outcomes (heads or tails) is flipped exactly 100 times. You need to tell how many times the coin falls heads up and how many times the coin falls tails up. <BR>
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First become familiar with the random module. Assign a value of 1 for heads and a value of 2 for tails. Then you are going to use a structure of the random module which will return only two possible outcomes. Either a one or a two. You are going to loop (look at range(1,101) or range(0,100). (Side question; why 101 or 0 to 100?; look closely at the meaning of the range arguments). Simply count the number of ones and the number of two's in the 100 flips then print the results. <BR>
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Good luck.<BR>
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Robert<BR>
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On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 13:08 -0700, Raj Medhekar wrote:
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I have been teaching myself Python using a book. The chapter I am on currently, covers branching, while loops and program planning. I am stuck on on of the challenges at the end of this chapter, and I was hoping to get some help with this. Here it is:<BR>
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Write a program that flips a coin 100 times and the tells you the number of heads and tails.<BR>
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I have tried to think about several ways to go about doing this but I have hit a wall. Even though I understand the general concept of branching and looping, I have been having trouble writing a program with these. I look forward to your reply that will help me understand these structures better.<BR>
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Sincerely,<BR>
Raj<BR>
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