{"id":30705,"date":"2023-01-16T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T09:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-coin-toss-who-wants-to-be-a-billionaire-closed\/"},"modified":"2023-01-16T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T09:46:08","slug":"solved-coin-toss-who-wants-to-be-a-billionaire-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-coin-toss-who-wants-to-be-a-billionaire-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Coin toss\/Who wants to be a Billionaire [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-33744686\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"33744686\" data-parentid=\"33743843\" data-score=\"0\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>writing the simulation is easy &#8211; im having trouble figuring out the optimization, i tried .4 to .1 for the pct multiplier and alway made over 1 billion in well less than 1000 tries:<\/p>\n<pre><code>from random import randint\n\nx = 1.0   # 1 euro\npct = .25 # 1\/4\n\nfor i in range(1000): # 0-999 = 1000\n    bet = x * pct\n    if randint(0,1) == 1: # assume 0 = tails 1 = heads\n        x += bet*2\n    else:\n        x -= bet\n\n    if x &gt; 1000000000.0:\n        break\n\nprint i,x\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>notice i stop once i get to a billion &#8211; the numbers get crazy big if you go to 1000 iterations<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Coin toss\/Who wants to be a Billionaire [closed] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] writing the simulation is easy &#8211; im having trouble figuring out the optimization, i tried .4 to .1 for the pct multiplier and alway made over 1 billion in well less than 1000 tries: from random import randint x = 1.0 # 1 euro pct = .25 # 1\/4 for i in range(1000): # &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] Coin toss\/Who wants to be a Billionaire [closed]\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-coin-toss-who-wants-to-be-a-billionaire-closed\/\" aria-label=\"More on [Solved] Coin toss\/Who wants to be a Billionaire [closed]\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[349],"class_list":["post-30705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solved","tag-python"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Solved] Coin toss\/Who wants to be a Billionaire [closed] - JassWeb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-coin-toss-who-wants-to-be-a-billionaire-closed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Solved] Coin toss\/Who wants to be a Billionaire [closed] - JassWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[ad_1] writing the simulation is easy &#8211; im having trouble figuring out the optimization, i tried .4 to .1 for the pct multiplier and alway made over 1 billion in well less than 1000 tries: from random import randint x = 1.0 # 1 euro pct = .25 # 1\/4 for i in range(1000): # ... 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