11. Random number basics
[status: unwritten]
Purpose:
Learning more about random numbers
11.1. Prerequisites
The 10 hour “serious programming” course.
A GNU/Linux system with python3 and python3-tk installed (on an Ubuntu 16.04 system this can be done with
sudo apt install python3-tk)
11.2. Motivation
In our “serious programming” course we used random numbers to program a random strategy in the computer’s tic-tac-toe algorithm.
It turns out that random numbers appear in very many areas of scientific computing, so in this chapter we will become comfortable with how to generate, plot and use random numbers.
11.3. Types of distributions
Here we will go a bit further and look at the various calls in
Python’s random library, explore some simple … FIXME: to be
filled
11.4. Further reading
[unfinished]