Comments on: Learning Python

By: kellan

kellan — Wed, 12 May 2010 01:54:54 +0000

object Coin {
	val rand = new scala.util.Random()

	def toss() = {
		rand.nextBoolean()
	}
}

var heads = 0
var tails = 0
val range = 0.until(1000000)
for (i <- range) {
	if (Coin.toss()) {
		heads += 1
	} else {
		tails += 1
	}
}

println("Heads: " + heads + " Tails: " + tails)

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:40:31 +0000

You and I think alike without sleep. ;P

By: Luke Smith

Luke Smith — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:48:10 +0000

Well, technically, done once after the loop shouldn’t change the results much. For some reason (read: lack of sleep) I thought it was in the loop

By: Luke Smith

Luke Smith — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:45:32 +0000

Did you try the js/node version without JSON.stringify? It’s a far more complicated operation than just printing output.