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Fall Back Son · Apr 9th, 2008, 4:43 PM

You're confused by the logic of the project itself not by the program. For the Monty Hall problem, the percentage of the time it's beneficial to change choices is supposed to be 66% (I think). So if you're running a test an infinite numbers of times, the percentage should always come out to the same thing, theoretically. Statistically, you SHOULD be getting around the same percentage every time you run your program. There's nothing wrong with your results. The randomization is fine (for this project).

If you increase tries to 10,000 and run it a few times, you should find that the expected results are even closer together. Then run it on 20,000 tries. Etc. The results will be closer and closer together.

Apr 9th, 2008, 4:43 PM	#2
Fall Back Son Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 204 Rep Power: 2	Re: better randomization? You're confused by the logic of the project itself not by the program. For the Monty Hall problem, the percentage of the time it's beneficial to change choices is supposed to be 66% (I think). So if you're running a test an infinite numbers of times, the percentage should always come out to the same thing, theoretically. Statistically, you SHOULD be getting around the same percentage every time you run your program. There's nothing wrong with your results. The randomization is fine (for this project). If you increase tries to 10,000 and run it a few times, you should find that the expected results are even closer together. Then run it on 20,000 tries. Etc. The results will be closer and closer together. Last edited by Fall Back Son; Apr 9th, 2008 at 4:57 PM.