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Python program to design a biased dice throw function
An example of random.choice() in Python: Here, we are going to learn how to design a function that can be used as biased dice throw and the function will return a random value?
Submitted by Anuj Singh, on August 01, 2019
Here, we are going to build a biaseddice() function using python. The program is so simple as an introductory program and similar to the function dice() for defining a function. The function is going to use an inbuilt library naming random(). This random python library helps us to choose a random value of the variable within the range or take some random value from a given set.
random.choice([1,2,3,4,4,4,5,6,6,6])
The above function will choose a random value with probability of:
DICE FACE = PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE
- 1 = 0.1
- 2 = 0.1
- 3 = 0.1
- 4 = 0.3
- 5 = 0.1
- 6 = 0.3
Each member of the set have equal probability to get fired when random.choice() function is called and if a member is present multiple times in the set, its probability increases as well.
Here is the code
import random
# function to return the randon value
# on biased dice roll
def biaseddice():
return random.choice([1,2,3,4,4,4,5,6,6,6])
# main code i.e. calling the function
print('DICE THREW : ', biaseddice())
print('DICE THREW : ', biaseddice())
print('DICE THREW : ', biaseddice())
print('DICE THREW : ', biaseddice())
print('DICE THREW : ', biaseddice())
print('DICE THREW : ', biaseddice())
print('DICE THREW : ', biaseddice())
print('DICE THREW : ', biaseddice())
print('DICE THREW : ', biaseddice())
print('DICE THREW : ', biaseddice())
Output
DICE THREW : 6
DICE THREW : 4
DICE THREW : 5
DICE THREW : 6
DICE THREW : 2
DICE THREW : 2
DICE THREW : 6
DICE THREW : 4
DICE THREW : 4
DICE THREW : 3
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