/* Coin flipping simulation demo for CPSC 531 */

/* */
/* Written by Carey Williamson, U of Calgary */
/* */
/* Usage: cc -o flipper flipper.c */
/* ./flipper */

#include <stdio.h>

#define NUMFLIPS 10

/* Number of coin flips to simulate */

/* Debugging output */
#define DEBUG 1

/***********************************************************************/
/* RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION STUFF */
/***********************************************************************/

/* Parameters for random number generation. */

#define MAX_INT 2147483647 /* Maximum positive integer 2^31 - 1 */

/* Generate a random floating point value uniformly distributed in [0,1] */

float Uniform01()
{
float randnum;

/* get a random positive integer from random() */

randnum = (float) 1.0 * random();

/* divide by max int to get something in (0..1) */

randnum = (float) randnum / (1.0 * MAX_INT);

return( randnum );
}

/***********************************************************************/
/* MAIN PROGRAM */
/***********************************************************************/

int main()
{
int flips, heads, tails;

/* Initialization */
srandom(1234567);
flips = 0;
heads = 0;
tails = 0;

while( flips < NUMFLIPS )

{
float val;
val = Uniform01();
if( val < 0.50 )
{
printf("H\n");
heads++;
}
else
{
printf("T\n");
tails++;
 }
flips++;
}

#ifdef DEBUG
printf("\n");
printf("Coin Flipping Simulation\n");
printf("Number of flips: %d\n", NUMFLIPS);
printf("Number of heads: %d\n", heads);
printf("Number of tails: %d\n", tails);
printf("Observed probability of heads: %8.6f\n", 1.0*heads/NUMFLIPS);
#endif
}