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[Timothy Grant]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Pierre Dagenais
<pierre.dagenais at ncf.ca> wrote:
> kayla bishop wrote:
>>
>> I can't figure out how to write a program where you flip a coin 100 times
>> and it keeps track of how many heads and tails you flipped but it has to be
>> random. Can you please help
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>
> Here is how one newbie would do it:
>
>
> import random
>
> # Initialize variables
> head = 0
> tail = 0
>
> # Flip the coin a hundred times
> for x in range(100):
>   choice = random.randint(1,2)
>  # Is it 'head'?
>   if choice == 1 :
>       head = head + 1
>      # If not 'head' then it must be tail
>   else :
>       tail = tail + 1
>      print "head = ",head
> print "tail = ",tail
>
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Please let us know if Pierre gets an an "A" on that assignment or not Kayla.

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