Imperical Analysis for Stephanie

coinProb.py

  1 tails = 0
  2 heads = 0
  3 success = 0
  4 numTrials = 10000000
  5 
  6 import random
  7 
  8 
  9 for t in range(numTrials):
 10         for i in range(256):
 11                 if random.randint(0,1) == 1:
 12                         tails += 1
 13                 else:
 14                         heads += 1
 15         if tails >= 240:
 16                 success += 1
 17         tails = 0
 18         heads = 0
 19 
 20 print "The imperical data says:"
 21 print success/float(numTrials)