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January 13, 2018 23:06
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Simulate throwing a dice and waiting until all numbers appear
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''' Simple script for throwing a dice over and over until all numbers appeared at least once. ''' | |
from __future__ import division | |
import random | |
import time | |
n = 10**5 | |
r = random.SystemRandom() | |
def number_of_dice_throws(): | |
count = 0 | |
throws = [False, False, False, False, False, False] | |
while not throws[0] or not throws[1] or not throws[2] or not throws[3] or not throws[4] or not throws[5]: | |
throws[r.randint(0, 5)] = True | |
count += 1 | |
return count | |
def get_percentile(f, p): | |
val = 5 | |
total_sum = 0.0 | |
while total_sum < p and val < max(f): | |
val += 1 | |
if val in f: total_sum += f[val] | |
else: total_sum += 0.0 | |
return val | |
# try n times | |
results = [] | |
i = 0 | |
start = time.time() | |
while i < n: | |
results.append(number_of_dice_throws()) | |
i += 1 | |
# aggregate all results | |
aggregated = {} | |
for result in results: | |
if result in aggregated: aggregated[result] += 1 | |
else: aggregated[result] = 1 | |
# calculate experimental pdf | |
f = {} | |
for k in aggregated: | |
prob = aggregated[k]/n | |
f[k] = prob | |
print [str(v) + ': ' + str(f[v]*100) for v in f] | |
print '\n==================\nPercentiles:' | |
print '50%:', get_percentile(f, 0.5), 'throws' | |
print '90%:', get_percentile(f, 0.9), 'throws' | |
print '95%:', get_percentile(f, 0.95), 'throws' | |
print '99%:', get_percentile(f, 0.99), 'throws' | |
print 'Finished in', round(time.time()-start, 2), 's' |
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