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Numpy Beginner's Guide (Update)
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Numpy Beginner's Guide (Update)

by Ivan Idris
June 2015
Beginner
348 pages
8h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Time for action – simulating a game show

Imagine a game show where every time the contestants answer a question correctly, they get to pull three balls from a jar and then put them back. Now, there is a catch, one ball in the jar is bad. Every time it is pulled out, the contestants lose six points. If, however, they manage to get out 3 of the 25 normal balls, they get one point. So, what is going to happen if we have 100 questions in total? Look at the following section for the solution:

  1. Initialize the outcome of the game with the hypergeometric() function. The first parameter of this function is the number of ways to make a good selection, the second parameter is the number of ways to make a bad selection, and the third parameter is the number ...
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