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Finding out the lowest number when using the random number.

I'm trying to work out how to find the lowest number when a dice is thrown x amount of times. My program only shows me the last number thrown. Any help greatly appreciated. import random x = 0 while (x < 6): dice_roll = str (random.randint(1,6)) print("you rolled a " + dice_roll) x = x + 1 print ("the lowest number rolled was " + min (dice_roll))

4th Jan 2017, 12:33 PM
Brian
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Practically what was said above but if the language that's being used is let's say Python then you could make a list which will keep all of the entries. Then you could use the min function to return the lowest value. import random x = 0 a = [] while (x < 6): dice_roll = str (random.randint(1,6)) print("you rolled a " + dice_roll) a.append(dice_roll) x = x + 1 print ("the lowest number rolled was " + min (a))
5th Jan 2017, 12:58 AM
Don
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Hello Brian. You are always overwriting the variable dice_roll, thats why it shows the last number. I don't know what Language is this, but you can do something like this: x = 0 lowest = 0 while (x < 6): dice_roll = str (random.randint(1,6)) print("you rolled a " + dice_roll) if (lowest == 0 || dice_roll < lowest): lowest = dice_roll x = x + 1 print ("the lowest number rolled was " + lowest) Another way to do this, is using dice_roll as an Array Like this: x = 0 while (x < 6): dice_roll[x] = str (random.randint(1,6)) print("you rolled a " + dice_roll[x]) x = x + 1 print ("the lowest number rolled was " + min (dice_roll)) I'm not sure if the syntax is correct, but that is the idea. Hope it helps.
4th Jan 2017, 12:52 PM
Guilherme Lima
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Thank you very much. I will try this.
4th Jan 2017, 12:54 PM
Brian