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I'm trying to take a random string of numbers between 1-300, and sort them into roughly equal categories.
Below is the script I threw together to test.. and I'd use the random string created for the next execution.
It should be sorting the values from highest to lowest, and assigning the value to the current lowest number, which in theory.. should make the two teams fairly even.
For some reason though, I'd keep getting perfectly sorted teams, from a random assortment of numbers.
I expected numbers ranges in the green values, but not the pink / red values. Or at least, not as often as I'm seeing them.
Was I just getting unaturally lucky, or is there something wrong with how I'm sorting the the values?
Below is the script I threw together to test.. and I'd use the random string created for the next execution.
It should be sorting the values from highest to lowest, and assigning the value to the current lowest number, which in theory.. should make the two teams fairly even.
For some reason though, I'd keep getting perfectly sorted teams, from a random assortment of numbers.
I expected numbers ranges in the green values, but not the pink / red values. Or at least, not as often as I'm seeing them.
Was I just getting unaturally lucky, or is there something wrong with how I'm sorting the the values?
Lua:
local count_1, team_1 = 0, {}
local count_2, team_2 = 0, {}
local numbers = {206,75,129,13,212,166,255,134,141,11,281,41,102,88,194,230,131,40,247,11,95,2,49,90,21,87,89,103,115,221,114,21,295,243,34,206,109,288,40,249}
table.sort(numbers)
for i = 1, #numbers do
i = #numbers + 1 - i
if count_1 <= count_2 then
count_1 = count_1 + numbers[i]
table.insert(team_1, numbers[i])
else
count_2 = count_2 + numbers[i]
table.insert(team_2, numbers[i])
end
end
print(count_1, count_2)
math.randomseed(os.time())
local txt = ""
for i = 1, 40 do
txt = txt .. math.random(1, 300) .. ","
end
print(txt)