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BASIC Source File
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1989-08-31
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' DICE.BAS
' This program asks the user to enter how many times the QuickBASIC
' Interpreter should "roll" two dice, and then calculates how many
' times the number 7 comes up.
CLS
RANDOMIZE TIMER
COLOR 4 ' red color for title
PRINT "DICE-SIMULATION PROGRAM"
COLOR 7 ' restore default white color
PRINT
numSeven% = 0 ' start with 7 counter equal to zero
INPUT "How many times should I roll the dice? ", rolls%
PRINT
PRINT "Working..." ' make sure the user knows nothing is wrong
FOR i% = 1 TO rolls%
die1% = INT(RND * 7) ' "roll" the first die
die2% = INT(RND * 7) ' "roll" the second die
IF die1% + die2% = 7 THEN numSeven% = numSeven% + 1
NEXT i%
PRINT
PRINT "Out of"; rolls%; "rolls, the number 7 came"
PRINT "up"; numSeven%; "times."