high_card_simulation_test
high_card_simulation_test,
a MATLAB code which
calls high_card_simulation(), which
simulates a game in which you have one chance to select the highest card
from a deck.
Licensing:
The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page
are distributed under
the MIT license
Related Data and Programs:
high_card_simulation,
a MATLAB code which
simulates a situation in which you see the cards in a deck one by one,
and must select the one you think is the highest and stop.
Source Code:
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high_card_simulation_test01.m,
estimates the chance of winning with a 100 card deck, and skips of 1, 11,
21, ..., 91 cards.
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high_card_simulation_test02.m,
computes the chance of winning with a 100 card deck and any skip from 0 to 99,
then makes a plot.
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high_card_simulation_test02.png,
a plot illustrating the estimated probability of picking the high card
after first skipping 0, 1, 2, ..., 99 cards.
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high_card_simulation_test03.m,
computes the exact chances of winning with various skips, and a deck of 100 cards.
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high_card_simulation_test03.png,
plots the exact chances of winning with various skips, and a deck of 100 cards.
Last revised on 17 January 2019.