I am running some code for a class and I have no clue what to do, I submitted the assignment but it's not helpful if I don't know what to do in the end. Here is the code that I am running to try and track these tests. The idea is to see how many children it takes before you have at least 1 child of each sex. Then the program should be storing that to a list value as boysandgirls_stats[x]. The problem is that it won't store all tests. It only logs around 40 out of 100 or 200 out of 1000. I don't know where these other tests are being stored. stdarray is something we have to use from a book we are using. It tracks the tests similarly to how a list would in python but it wasn't explained well to me. Thank you!
import stdio
import random
import sys
import stdarray
numTrials = int(sys.argv[1])
boysandgirls_stats = stdarray.create1D(4, 0)
boys = 0
girls = 0
children = 0
totalChildren = 0
for x in range(numTrials): # Simulation to determine sex
childType = random.randint(0, 1)
if childType == 0:
boys += 1
children += 1
totalChildren += 1
else:
girls += 1
children += 1
totalChildren += 1
for x in range(numTrials): # Keeps track of amount of children needed
if (boys >= 1) and (girls >= 1):
if children <= 5:
boysandgirls_stats[children - 2] += 1
boys = 0
girls = 0
children = 0
else:
boysandgirls_stats[3] += 1
boys = 0
girls = 0
children = 0
avgChildren = totalChildren / numTrials # Calculation for average children
stdio.writeln('Avg # of children: ' + str(avgChildren))
for x in range(len(boysandgirls_stats)):
stdio.writeln(str(x+2) + ' children ' + str(boysandgirls_stats[x]))
import sys
import random
## let's put the test inside a function:
def child_test():
girl = False
boy = False
total_children = 0
while not (boy and girl):
total_children += 1
if random.randint(0, 1) == 0:
boy = True
else:
girl = True
return total_children
## now the statistics:
# get the number of trials from user command:
num_trials = int(sys.argv[1])
# for every number of children, log the associated number of tests:
total = 0
indexed_count = {}
for i in range(num_trials):
num_children = child_test()
if num_children not in indexed_count:
indexed_count[num_children] = 0
indexed_count[num_children] += 1
total += num_children
# calculate and output the average:
average = total / num_trials
print(f'average is : {average}')
# show tries per number of children
sorted_indexed_count = sorted(indexed_count.items(), key = lambda x: x[1], reverse = True)
for t in sorted_indexed_count:
print(f' {t[0]} children : {t[1]} tests')
Outputs :
$ python3 so.py 100000
average is : 3.00812
2 children : 49702 tests
3 children : 25238 tests
4 children : 12401 tests
5 children : 6314 tests
6 children : 3159 tests
7 children : 1528 tests
8 children : 840 tests
9 children : 410 tests
10 children : 214 tests
11 children : 99 tests
12 children : 53 tests
13 children : 18 tests
14 children : 10 tests
15 children : 6 tests
16 children : 6 tests
18 children : 1 tests
17 children : 1 tests