CMIS 102

Heads or tails Lab

Make an applet) that simulates coin tosses.  Let the user specify how
many tosses to do. Count the number of heads and tails.  Use
Math.random() Hint: if it's less than .5 it's a head.

Report the number of heads and tails and the percentage that each is
of the number of tosses (should be close to 50% each). Remember to do
real division. 

Run the program several times with these number of flips:
(print this out and fill in your data)

#Flips           %heads           %tails
------        ---------        ---------
100

100

100

1000

1000

1000

1000000

1000000

1000000

10000000

10000000

10000000

What trend do you see about the percentages as the number of coin
flips increases?



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Add a JTextArea and a JScrollPane and append the result of each toss
in the textarea (maybe as H and T).
Display the textarea in a JOptionPane after all the tossing has
happened.
Copy the incantations from the ScrollPane.java progam


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Harder:

during the tossings find the largest difference between the number of
heads and the number of tails, i.e. where the number of heads is the
most more than the number of tails. This is a find the maximum
problem, so a max variable is needed and each time there is a new max
value it becomes the value of the max variable. The value is the
difference between the number of heads and tails, which is
heads-tails.

Example:
flips:
 h h h t t h h t t t h
heads-tails values:
 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 2 1 0 1
So the max gap is 3.

When that works, add similar code to find the biggest difference where
the number of tails is the most more than the number of heads.

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Harderer:

find the longest run of heads and of tails. 

Example:
 h h h t t h h t t t h
longest run of heads is 3
longest run of tails is 3