understanding loop

[pagheca]

Hi everyone,
I would like to simulate as a start the throw of two dices and want to check how many times I get a certain value from 0 to 12.

I used a while loop (see attachment) but it doesn't work as it never exit the loop. N is the number of throws to try. Y[0,P is a vector, j is an index. Z is the histogram that should contain the result (but actually I guess there is a problem also here as it looks I never compute any of the instruction from D <- to j+1).

Where am I wrong? Must be very easy but I didn't get probably the logic of these loop programming. Thanks for any help,
pagheca

 

[pstuckey]

The loop is executing, but all it's doing is incrementing Y[0,0 from 0 to 100. Change the second line of your loop to the following to see the total for each possibility:

Y[0,(D-2) := Y[0,(D-2) + 1

[ is vector subscript

Peter

 

[pstuckey]

Also, you have one extra column in Y, there are only 11 possibilities not 12.

Peter

 

[IRstuff]

Well, one die could end up on its edge, I suppose...

TTFN

FAQ731-376

 

[pagheca]

ok, thanks for all the advice! Now it works.
pagheca