Thread: C programming questions including the use of arrays

Hello! Sorry to make the first post as a question, but I am struggling on the following question:

"Write a program to simulate the rolling of a dice. The sum of the two dice is to be calculated. If the dice is rolled 10,000 times, using arrays record the number of times each possible sum occurs."

for the simulating the rolling of dice and it's sum it is very simple, but how would you go about recording (using arrays) the amount of times the same sum occurs (inside the loop) ?

Thank you all in advance !

Originally Posted by Syscal

Just create an array of type int and loop through each of your 10000 cases storing the result in the location that sum has (2 - 12). Pseudo code below:

Code:

int results[13] = { 0 }, sum = 0, index; //12 is the highest possible sum

for(index = 0; index <= 10000; index++){ //for each of the 10,000 iterations
    sum = getSum();
    results[sum]++;
}

That's how I would go about doing it.

Then to read this info back to stdout, you could just loop through your array like so:

Code:

for( index = 0; index <= 12; index++ )
    printf("There were %d %d's\n", result[index], index );

Thanks! Just to clear up a small misunderstanding from my side - what is getSum() being used for in your code? As well as in your second example - result[]?