Dice problem. Help needed.

[quickshare]

Greetings to everyone.

Assume that we have a dice program a very simple one, just prints line of information.
Imagine that we don't want to roll two sixes in any six consecutive roll, how can we do that?

code:
lastRoll = diceone.roll();
for(int i = 0; i<600; i++){
int newRoll = diceone.roll();
if (newRoll == lastRoll){
System.out.println("new and last roll are identical");
break;
}
lastRoll = newRoll;
}


thanks in advance
d.

[mr1yh1]

rollsIndex = rollsIndex + 1 % 6;
this dont let more than 6 element in array .
includes function search in arrray.

import java.util.Random;

public class DiceTest {
  // roll the dice
  public static int diceone_roll(){
    int i =  ( r.nextInt(6) + 1 );//a random between 1-6 
    System.out.println(i);
    return i;
  }
  static Random r = new Random(System.currentTimeMillis());
  
  // if newRoll's value repeated rolls
  public static boolean includes(int newRoll,int[] rolls ){
    for ( int i = 0 ; i < rolls.length ; i++ ){
      if ( newRoll == rolls[i] ) return true;//found
    }
    return false;// not found
  }
  
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    int[] rolls = new int[6];
    int rollsIndex = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < 600; i++) {
      int newRoll = diceone_roll();
      if ( includes(newRoll,rolls) ) {
        // rollsIndex = 0; // 
        System.out.println("new and last roll are identical");
        break;
      }
     rollsIndex = rollsIndex + 1 % 6;
      rolls[rollsIndex] = newRoll; // dont let more than 6 consecutive
    }

  }
}

[quickshare]

thanks for that. really helpful stuff. can anyone tell me how can you create a class that will only roll 50 sixes and 110 of the other values in 600 rolls? and how can yu make a class so that two separate new derived dice objects can communicate and not roll consecutive sixes? i think something with the static int will be an ideal way but how?

thanks in advance
d.

[quickshare]

after getting my head down to the problem I found it. thanks for your help.