on writing a while loop for rolling two dice

[Andrew Jaffe]

On 11/09/2021 10:09, dn via Python-list wrote:
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> The stated requirement is: "I'd like to get the number of times I
> tried". Given such: why bother with returning any of the pairs of values?

Indeed, if that's the requirement, then you can do even better, noting 
that the probability of getting a matched pair is 1/6 (6 matches out of 
6*6 possibilities). So the answer to the problem is exactly the same as 
rolling a single die until you get any particular number (e.g., 1).

This is somewhat easier to simulate than the two-dice problem (and the 
number of throws until a match is also a known, analytic distribution 
that you could sample from, but this is probably easier).