[NetBehaviour] jwm-art.death
James Morris
james at jwm-art.net
Tue Sep 22 22:03:49 CEST 2020
I suppose. By responding you've automatically your name is automatically
added to the script, by hand. My hand. However, due to your attitude to
winning I've put a marker next to your name.
Cheers
James.
On 22/09/2020 21:01, Bjørn Magnhildøen via NetBehaviour wrote:
> hi james,
> can you put me in as a loser? i'd like to be part of it, i've enjoyed
> your website over time. maybe at the bottom, outside the count?
>
> best wishes,
> bjørn
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 7:39 PM James Morris <james at jwm-art.net
> <mailto:james at jwm-art.net>> wrote:
>
> RF (here my abbreviation for "random function") holds a random
> numeric value, currently fixed at 2020. If it wasn't fixed I'd use
> the alternative suggested in the comment, being the value of
> nanoseconds from system time. It's fixed because there are only
> three entrants, and two of them agree the third should win. count
> holds the number of entrants. The % symbol means modulus. A
> modulus calculation is a way of taking a big number and wrapping
> it around a small number until it's no larger than the small
> number. RF % count + 1 therefor provides the index of the winner
> in the list of names.
>
>
> On 22/09/2020 08:58, Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote:
>> Ha hah! Thanks for the endorsement Alan; )
>> But I'm pretty sure that's not how it should work.
>> James I don't understand the logic of the selection. How's it work?
>>
>> :)
>> R
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 1:59 AM Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com
>> <mailto:sondheim at panix.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Surely Ruth all the time and forever!
>>
>> Best, Alan
>>
>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2020, James Morris wrote:
>>
>> > winner selecting bash script attached. modifications
>> welcome. winner
>> > currently fixed.
>> >
>> >
>>
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#!/bin/bash
# jwm-art.death
# version 0.0.2
# any modifications welcome
# final script will be run by jwm on 2020-10-05 (5th October 2020)
# see https://lists.netbehaviour.org/pipermail/netbehaviour/2020-August/041570.html
declare -a names=("Alan" "Ruth" "Ann" "#Bjørn")
count=${#names[@]}
RF=2021
winner="#"
while [[ "${winner:0:1}" == "#" ]]
do
R=$((10#$RF % $count))
winner="${names[$R]}"
RF=$(date +%N)
done
echo "And the winner is ${winner}!"
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