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rocky roy
556 PointsRandomNumber and guess have equal value, because inside the loop we are assigning RandomNumber to guess.
RandomNumber and guess have equal value, because inside the loop we are assigning RandomNumber to guess. That mean at first time computer should guess the number .
while (guess !== RandomNumber) { guess = GetRandomNumber(upper); // both have the same number atttems += 1; }
Then why computer taking so long time to guess the correct number.
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Steven Parker
229,708 PointsIt's not clear that "inside the loop we are assigning RandomNumber to guess". For that to be true, RandomNumber would have to be assigned inside GetRandomNumber to the same thing as the return value. But you did not show that part of the code.
Based on your observation of the "computer taking so long time to guess the correct number", I would expect that is NOT what happens inside the GetRandomNumber function.
For a more complete analysis, you need to share all the code, or better yet, make a snapshot of your workspace and provide the link to it.
rocky roy
556 Pointsvar upper = 10000; var RandomNumber = GetRandomNumber(upper); var guess; var atttems = 0; function GetRandomNumber(upper) { return Math.round(Math.random() *upper) + 1 } while (guess !== RandomNumber) { guess = GetRandomNumber(upper); atttems += 1; } document.write('The random no was '+ RandomNumber + ' <br>'); document.write('computer took ' + atttems +' times to guess it');
my main concern is how guess is getting number.
Steven Parker
229,708 PointsSee the comment added to my previous answer above.
rocky roy
556 Pointsnow i understood it properly. thank you very much for explaining it.
Steven Parker
229,708 PointsSteven Parker
229,708 PointsJust what I thought, the GetRandomNumber function does not internally change RandomNumber, it just returns a random guess.
So on line 2, RandomNumber is established:
var RandomNumber = GetRandomNumber(upper);Then, inside the loop, a new random number is picked and assigned to guess. The loop continues until the original value is picked again, causing guess to be the same as RandomNumber.
Given the range used (10000), you can expect that the average number of guesses will be about 5000 (half the range). But when the generator is "unlucky" it could take many times the range to get it.
Just for grins, I tried running this 10,000 times. The smallest number of guesses was 2, and the greatest was 98040 (because the "guesser" doesn't remember what was already tried). The average number was 2716, which means the computer was actually pretty "lucky" overall (or more likely, the random number is not truly "random").