**7.24 (Simulation: coupon collector’s problem) Coupon collector is a classic statistics problem with many practical applications. The problem is to pick objects from a set of objects repeatedly and find out how many picks are needed for all the objects to be picked at least once. A variation of the problem is to pick cards from a shuffled deck of 52 cards repeatedly and find out how many picks are needed before you see one of each suit. Assume a picked card is placed back in the deck before picking another. Write a program to simulate the number of picks needed to get four cards from each suit and display the four cards picked (it is possible a card may be picked twice).
Here is a sample run of the program:
Queen of Spades
5 of Clubs
Queen of Hearts
4 of Diamonds
Number of picks: 12
Here is a sample run of the program:
Queen of Spades
5 of Clubs
Queen of Hearts
4 of Diamonds
Number of picks: 12
public class ProgrammingEx7_24 { // Approach: Pick card at ramdom and check for suit then record if a suit // has been picked up. Keep doing that until all suits are picked up . public static void main(String[] args) { int mask = 0b1111, picked = 0b0000; int numberOfPick = 0; while ((mask & picked) != mask) { int card = pickCard(); String suit = getSuit(card); int temp = picked; switch (suit) { case "Clubs": picked |= 0b1000; break; case "Diamonds": picked |= 0b0100; break; case "Hearts": picked |= 0b0010; break; case "Spades": picked |= 0b0001; break; } String rank = getRank(card); if (temp != picked) { System.out.println(rank + " of " + suit); } numberOfPick++; } System.out.println("Number of picks:" + numberOfPick); } public static int pickCard() { int card = (int) (Math.random() * 52.0); // pick a card 0-51 return card; } public static String getRank(int card) { int rank = card / 4; // determine the rank 0-12 String strRank = ""; switch (rank) { case 0: strRank = "Ace"; break; case 10: strRank = "Jack"; break; case 11: strRank = "Queen"; break; case 12: strRank = "King"; break; default: strRank = "" + (rank + 1); break; } return strRank; } public static String getSuit(int card) { int suit = card % 4; // determine the suit 0-3 String strSuit = ""; switch (suit) { case 0: strSuit = "Clubs"; break; case 1: strSuit = "Diamonds"; break; case 2: strSuit = "Hearts"; break; case 3: strSuit = "Spades"; break; } return strSuit; } }
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