# Ehsan Momeni

 

 

# This program counts the average time and iteration for solving CherryO game over different playings.
# You can play it unlimitedly while number of cherries are unlimited, too (both are user-defined)
# Spinner has 7 different options as [-1,-2,-3,-4,2,2,Reset_to_Total_Cherries].

 

from time import *  # To calculate the running time
from random import *  # To generate random numbers for the spinner

 

Times = int(raw_input("\nHow may times do you want to play it?\t"))  # number of total iterations
Total_Cherries = int(raw_input("Enter number of cherries:\t"))  # number of cherries in the tree

list = [-1, -2, -3, -4, 2, 2, Total_Cherries]

Running_count = []
Running_Time = []

 

for i in range(1, Times+1):
    start_time = time()  # Starting time of a game
    Counter = 0  # Counter counts number of iterations in each game

    Cherries = Total_Cherries
    while Cherries > 0:
        Spinner = list[randint(0, len(list)-1)]  # spinner is the action that have to applied on the cherries
        if Spinner == Total_Cherries:  # if game wants to reset to the pre-defined number of cherries
            Cherries = Total_Cherries
        else:  # if game is running without resetting to the pre-defined number of cherries
            Cherries += Spinner
            if Cherries > Total_Cherries:  # condition that limits maximum number of cherries
                Cherries = Total_Cherries
        Counter += 1  # Counting turns in each game
    # print "\nYou won in %d iteratinos!"%(Counter)

    Running_count.append(Counter)  # storing number of counts in each game in a list called Running_count
    Running_Time.append(time() - start_time)  # storing time of solving in each game in a list called Running_Time

print "\nThe average running iteration is %d" % (sum(Running_count)/Times)  # print the average of iteration

print "The average running time is %0.2f" % (sum(Running_Time)/Times)  # print the average of time

 

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