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Skandh
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Random Connections
« on: Aug 18th, 2011, 10:45am » |
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I was going through some algorithmic puzzles and got bit confused in following problem (the reason could be I usually get nervous when I see probability  )
"Random connections. Write a program that takes as command-line arguments
an integer N and a double value p (between 0 and 1), plots N equally spaced dots of size
.05 on the circumference of a circle, and then, with probability p for each pair of points,
draws a gray line connecting them"
Let's say I have N=10 equally spaced dots and p=0.3. Hence with the given data we have 45 pair of points.
So we have to draw lines between these 45 pairs with probability 0.3. What does this mean?
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Re: Random Connections
« Reply #1 on: Aug 18th, 2011, 11:37am » |
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on Aug 18th, 2011, 10:45am, Skandh wrote:| So we have to draw lines between these 45 pairs with probability 0.3. What does this mean? |
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The usual meaning is that each of these 45 lines can be drawn, each independently with a probability of 30%. So, something like
for i in 0 to 8
for j = i+1 to 9
draw a random number r, uniform in (0,1)
if r < 0.3
draw a line from point i to point j
end if
end for
end for
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