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How to print the sample space of an experiment in Python??

My question is some probability related like we will specify that we have 2 elements H and T and the coin is tossed 3 times and our each array element will have length of 3 like HHH so the program will give all the possible combinations what we call sample space in probability.

20th Sep 2019, 8:53 AM
Aquib Shaikh
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Can we print the sample space for one coin toss? Sure: def space(): print "H" print "T" Now the sample space for 2 coins is just whatever the first coin is plus the sample space of the other coin. The sample space for 3 coins is just whatever the first coin is plus the sample space of the other two coins. etc.. Sounds like recursion! def space(flips, n): space(flips + "H", n-1) space(flips + "T", n-1) Where n is the number of coins. The code above just runs forever and we are never printing anything so we need an exit case once we hit 0 coins. def space(flips, n): if n == 0: print flips return space(flips + "H", n-1) space(flips + "T", n-1) And that's it, you call it like `space("", 3)`
20th Sep 2019, 9:03 AM
Schindlabua
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