I am trying to make a program generating random numbers until it finds a predefined set of numbers (eg. if I had a set of my 5 favourite numbers, how many times would I need to play for the computer to randomly find the same numbers). I have written a simple program but don't understand the outcome which seems to be slightly unrelated to what I expected, for example the outcome does not necessarily contain all of the predefined numbers sometimes it does (and even that doesn't stop the loop from running). I think that the problem lies in the logical operator '&&' but am not sure. Here is the code:
const int one = 1;
const int two = 2;
const int three = 3;
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int first, second, third;
int i = 0;
time_t seconds;
time(&seconds);
srand ((unsigned int) seconds);
do
{
first = rand() % 10 + 1;
second = rand() % 10 + 1;
third = rand() % 10 + 1;
i++;
cout << first<<","<<second<<","<<third<< endl;
cout <<i<<endl;
} while (first != one && second != two && third != three);
return 0;
}
and here is out of the possible outcomes:
3,10,4
1 // itineration variable
7,10,4
2
4,4,6
3
3,5,6
4
7,1,8
5
5,4,2
6
2,5,7
7
2,4,7
8
8,4,9
9
7,4,4
10
8,6,5
11
3,2,7
12
I have also noticed that If I use the || operator instead of && the loop will execute until it finds the exact numbers respecting the order in which the variables were set (here: 1,2,3). This is better however what shall I do make the loop stop even if the order is not the same, only the numbers? Thanks for your answers and help.