Questions tagged [simulation]
Simulation is the imitation of some real thing, state of affairs, or process. The act of simulating something generally entails representing certain key characteristics or behaviours of a selected physical or abstract system.
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Statistical simulation
I've written the following program as a submission to the German Federal Computer Science Competition for highschool students. The program makes the following simulation with a given number of days ...
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Speed up a monte carlo simulation with nested loop
I would like to know if there is a more efficiency way to speed up below code. It uses a procedure where subsampling is required in the nested loop (which a previous answer helped to make more ...
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Randomizing and mutating algo class - functionality
See Randomizing and mutating algo class - style
I'm looking for a review of the functionality of this code, answers to the above question which also describes the code use focus on style instead.
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Randomizing and mutating algo class - style
I've updated this question to be about code style only, as all of it's answered focused on this aspect. For the codes function, see Randomizing and mutating algo class - functionality
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Monte Carlo coin flip simulation
I've been learning about Monte Carlo simulations on MIT's intro to programming class, and I'm trying to implement one that calculates the probability of flipping a coin heads side up 4 times in a row ...
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RPG Dice Roller
This is sort of a follow up to my post yesterday. I'm a relative newbie to Python and before I made a d20 dice roller for RPGs. Now I've made a dice roller for any type of dice, and I would love ...
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Random D20 number generator
I'm teaching myself code using Zed Shaw's Learn Python The Hard Way, and I got bored during one of the memorization lessons so I thought I would make a random D20 number generator for when I play RPGS....
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Imitate randomness of a dice roll
I have written some code in Java that consists of two classes. I have tried my best and I want you to tell me if I can improve and how good this is.
Also, how important is OOP? Java is an object ...
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Die-rolling for ordering
I have a little experience with Python and am trying to become more familiar with it. As an exercise, I've tried coding a program where the ordering of a list of players is determined by the roll of a ...
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Baseball game state class in python looking for feedback
So far, this is just a class that tracks the state of a baseball game. Unfortunately, I can't tell you for sure what the next step is. It might be a an interactive playable baseball game, or a game ...
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Human (imperfect) array (card) shuffle written in C
I've got this humanoid_shuffle I wrote in Python. I've been wanting to learn C so as an exercise I ported it to C. As this is my first venture into C and even the ...
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Is there a more efficient way to simulate in R, by exposition factor, gender and disease profile?
I started working with R recently and need to do a simulation for 100 000 people that
divides them in exposition factor for a disease, gender and presence or absence of
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My background info is ...
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Memory leaks in lottery simulator
I'm primarily a C++/Java programmer, but I've recently started using Python at work and decided to write a Lottery Simulator at home. I wrote it to test out different combinations of lottery numbers ...
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Discrete event simulation with variable intervals
I've built a discrete event simulation system, similar to the bank problem presented on the wikipedia page but with a key difference.
Let's say, that a TELLER can ...
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