Chances of stopping

compudave · **Posted:** Wed Nov 12, 2003 8:04 pm

Can anyone help me out by explaining how to incorporate a chance of stopping a count loop. For exanple how to get a counted loop to have a 50% of stopping before it reaches 10.

Chimaera · **Posted:** Wed Nov 12, 2003 8:10 pm

well all you really have to do is make an exit when statement with a randint

code:

for i: 1..10
var num : int
randint (num,1,2)
exit when num = 2
count := count+1
if count = 10
then put "Hurray, you hit 10"
end if
end for
if num = 2
then put "Aw shucks, you beat me to the punch. ;_;"
end if

Well that's basically the code you need, but why would you WANT to stop your forloop before it hits 10?

Karam · **Posted:** Wed Nov 12, 2003 8:59 pm

hehe dave got it before u lol Laughing

code:

var num : real
randomize
for count : 1 .. 10
rand (num)
exit when num <= .50
put count
end for

nis · **Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2003 3:31 am

That is not a 50% chance of exiting before hitting 10

Your code has a 50% chance everytime you go through the loop

I am not sure exactly what the numbers are but i think if you're going through the loop 10 times then the code should be:

code:

var num : real
var count : int := 0
randomize
loop
count += 1
rand (num)
exit when num <= .05 or count = 10
end loop
if count = 10 then
put "You got to 10"
else
put "You only got to ", count
end if

Andy · **Posted:** Mon Nov 17, 2003 6:41 pm

ummm

code:

for i: 1..10
exit when Rand.Int(0,1)
end for

Mazer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 17, 2003 6:51 pm

dodge, dodge, dodge... this isn't c++

code:

for i : 1 .. 10
exit when Rand.Int (0, 1) = 1
end for

although i'm still not sure that would be correct for having a 50% chance of exiting before reaching ten. with that code there's a 50% chance of exiting at every repetition. so... yeah...

Andy · **Posted:** Mon Nov 17, 2003 6:53 pm

sutpid turing... lol

Andy · **Posted:** Mon Nov 17, 2003 6:55 pm

btw, mekenzie screwed up ur dwite team name eh? ur mforce now LOL

Mazer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 17, 2003 7:01 pm

what're you talking about? another dwite?

Mazer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 17, 2003 7:05 pm

oh geez... why didn't anybody tell me about this?!

ok, so anybody up for another EM party?

Andy · **Posted:** Mon Nov 17, 2003 7:07 pm

em? whats em? and yea dwite is on wednesday this wednesday and its cuz he just signed up today lol. he accidentally gave ur team ian's team's name when submitting it

Mazer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 17, 2003 8:13 pm

oh. well, i'm sure he can change it. i sure hope they update the "Teams Registered" site soon, i hear there's gonna be a team from I.H. Ateturing Secondary School participating in the contest and that one of the guys in particular on that team is really good.

P.S. EM = Evasive Maneuvers. honestly, what else am i gonna be doing during the DWITE contest?

Andy · **Posted:** Tue Nov 18, 2003 7:19 pm

lol u should seriously make it lan compatible and have it so we can have more than two players playing

Tony · **Posted:** Tue Nov 18, 2003 7:27 pm

oh yeah, lol... have a dozen spaceships in that tiny EM screen shoot up each other Laughing

Mazer · **Posted:** Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:10 pm

yeah... not in turing. it's already lagging on the school computers with just two people. but maybe... maybe it's cuz i keep using my hadoken all the time....

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