"Richard D. Moores" <rdmoo...@gmail.com> wrote
'H's and 'T's. If you want the coin to have the probability of a
head
to be 6/11,
['H', 'H', 'H', 'H', 'H', 'H', 'T', 'T', 'T', 'T', 'T']
is the list to use. Use random.choice on the list, for a 6/11 heads
probability.
That will work but as you say is not very general.
You could write a function that takers the desired probablity
as an input and returns a result based on that.
The simplest way its to generate a random number between
0 and 1 and compare to the required probability expressed
as a decimal fraction.
In pseudo code:
def coinToss(prob = 0.5):
rand = random()
if rand >= prob: return True
else: return False
print "Heads" if coinToss(6/11) else "Tails"
Am I missing something that's already there in Python 2.6 or 3.1
(the
2 I have)?
There may well be functions in some of the modules that do it but
the approach above suffices for most applications.
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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