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syntribos

Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:56 pm


Help with adjusting integers on a bell curve

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Is it possible to adjust a random integer (or any integer) on a bell curve (so that numbers closer to the middle appear more frequently, and less on the edges)? 

I'm creating a 'Texas Hold 'em' program for my computer science at school, and wanted to add a multiplier on the bets given by the computers (e.g. a bet of $500 gets a multiplier of .93 and becomes $465). I wanted the bets to have a potential multiplier between ? 50%, but would like lower multipliers to appear more frequently.


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Insectoid

Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:08 pm


RE:Help with adjusting integers on a bell curve

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Turing has no built-in way to do this, but you can write a function that uses the random() funcion to generate random numbers on a curve.


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Tony

Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:59 pm


Re: RE:Help with adjusting integers on a bell curve

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but you can write a function that uses the random() funcion to generate random numbers on a curve.
A specific example is that a sum of rolling two random die has a bellcurve distribution.