"cesco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto nel messaggio news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I have to generate a list of N random numbers (integer) whose sum is > equal to M. If, for example, I have to generate 5 random numbers whose > sum is 50 a possible solution could be [3, 11, 7, 22, 7]. Is there a > simple pattern or function in Python to accomplish that? > > Thanks and regards > Francesco
You can initialize a list to [1, 1, 1, 1, 1], and generate 45 random integers between 1 and 5, and every time a number is generated, increase the Nth number in the list by one. Not all distinct lists will have the same chance of occurring, e.g. [46, 1, 1, 1, 1] will be much less likely than [10, 10, 10, 10, 10]. Depending on what you need these numbers for, it can be a good thing or a bad thing. --Army1987 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
