Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I wrote a very simple function to test random:
> def test_random(length, multiplier = 10000):
> number_list = length * [0]
> for i in range(length * multiplier):
> number_list[random.randint(0, length - 1)] += 1
> minimum = min(number_list)
> maximum = max(number_list)
> return (minimum, maximum, minimum / maximum)
As there is no guarantee that every number will occur randomly, using a
dictionary at first should be more efficient than a list:
def test_random (length, multiplier=10000):
number_list = {}
for i in range(length * multiplier):
r = random.randint(0, length - 1)
number_list[r] = number_list[r] + 1 if r in number_list else 1
values = number_list.values()
minimum = min(values)
maximum = max(values)
return (minimum, maximum, minimum / maximum)
[Š¢uple literals are going to be introduced with C# 7 ;-)]
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