I really need help. I defined a function that gives a x number of rolls for n-sided dice. Now I am asked to calculate the frequency of the each side and freq1 += 1 doesn't seem to work considering there can be many more sides (not just 6) and what I did was;
the first function I defined was dice(x),
freq_list = list(range(1,(n+1)))
rollfreq = [0]*n
for w in dice(x):
rollfreq[w-1] += 1
print zip(freq_list,rollfreq)
I get a list such as [(1,0),(2,4),(3,1)...] so on, which is expected, yet the problem is the rollfreq valus doesn't match the original randomly generated dice(x) list. I assume it is because since it is RNG, it changes the values of the dice(x) in the second run as well so that I can not refer to my original randomly generated dice(x) function. Is there any solution to this? I mean I tried almost everything, yet it apparently doesn't work!
EDIT:
import random
n = raw_input('Number of the sides of the dice: ')
n = int(n)
x = raw_input('Number of the rolls: ')
x = int(x)
def dice():
rolls = []
for i in range(x):
rolls.append(random.randrange(1, (n+1)))
return rolls
print dice()
freq_list = list(range(1,(n+1)))
rollfreq = [0]*n
for w in dice():
rollfreq[w-1] += 1
print 'The number of frequency of each side:', zip(freq_list,rollfreq)
I have added the code - hope you guys can help me figure it out this, thank you!
You called the dice() function twice, once when you printed it, and once when you iterated through it in a for loop. The different results come from there.
import random
n = raw_input('Number of the sides of the dice: ')
n = int(n)
x = raw_input('Number of the rolls: ')
x = int(x)
def dice():
rolls = []
for i in range(x):
rolls.append(random.randrange(1, (n+1)))
return rolls
freq_list = list(range(1,(n+1)))
rollfreq = [0]*n
# Grab the rolls
rolls = dice()
# Print them here
print(rolls)
for w in rolls:
rollfreq[w-1] += 1
print 'The number of frequency of each side:', zip(freq_list,rollfreq)