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[CraigD]

Originally Posted by phillip1882

while z <100:
   y = random.randint(0,100)
   x = random.randint(0,y)
   z = random.randint(0,x)

Originally Posted by alexander

Actually that code will never halt, because while you may have a random number equal to 100, your algo will never return z that is larger then 100.

This code will finish on average after iterations of the loop, because random.randint(0,100) can return integers including 0 and 100, and “100 < 100” evaluates to false.

Alexander, perhaps you’re confusing python’s random.randint with the random function of other languages, where RANDOM(100) typically returns no integer greater than 99? Or confused “<” for “<=”?