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54 lines
1.4 KiB
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// Dice
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//
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// Danny Freidus
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// Ported from BASIC to MiniScript by Joe Strout
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print " "*34 + "DICE"
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print " "*15 + "CREATIVE COMPUTING MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY"
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print; print; print
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print "This program simulates the rolling of a"
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print "pair of dice."
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print "You enter the number of times you want the computer to"
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print "'roll' the dice. Watch out, very large numbers take"
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print "a long time. In particular, numbers over 5000."
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// Function to do one run of the simulation.
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runOnce = function
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// Clear the array we'll use to hold the counts
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counts = [0] * 13
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// Loop the desired number of times
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x = input("How many rolls? ").val
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for s in range(1, x)
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// roll two dice and find the sum
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die1 = ceil(6 * rnd)
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die2 = ceil(6 * rnd)
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sum = die1 + die2
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// update the count for that sum
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counts[sum] += 1
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end for
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print
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// print a table showing how many times each sum was rolled
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print "Total Spots Number of Times"
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for v in range(2, 12)
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// (the [-6:] trick below right-aligns the number)
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print (" " + v)[-6:] + " "*10 + counts[v]
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end for
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print; print
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end function
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// Get a yes/no (or at least y/n) response from the user.
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askYesNo = function(prompt)
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while true
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answer = input(prompt).lower[:1]
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if answer == "y" or answer == "n" then return answer
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end while
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end function
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// main loop
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while true
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print
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runOnce
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if askYesNo("Try again? ") == "n" then break
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end while
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