Op 09-09-13 02:21, Dennis Lee Bieber schreef: > On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 19:48:55 +0200, Antoon Pardon > <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> declaimed the following: > >> Op 08-09-13 04:12, Jason Friedman schreef: >>> choices = dict() >>> choices["apple"] = 10 >>> choices["pear"] = 20 >>> choices["banana"] = 15 >>> choices["orange"] = 25 >>> choices["kiwi"] = 30 >>> >>> I want to pick sets of fruit, three in a set, where the chance of >>> selecting a given fruit is proportional to its weight. In the example >>> above, pears should appear twice as often as apples and kiwis should >>> appear twice as often as bananas. >> >> Just a small question. Is a set of three bananas an acceptable outcome? > > If we are talking probabilities, regardless of what the weighting is, > it should be probable (if unlikely) to get three-of-a-kind.
Why should that be? I'm unfamiliar with any kind of imperative that discourages people from wanting sets with three different kinds of fruit. -- Antoon Pardon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
