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Sheep Dog Program

This program works out how many sheep dogs are required to look after a given number of black and white sheep.

Program


---

Sheep Dog Program

---

prog_vars =

d/white_sheep 0

d/black_sheep 0

d/total_sheep 0

d/runs_to_do 10

d/runs_done 1

d/colors[] ""

prog_vars.


prog_start =


print "Sheep Program."

print "No of runs to do /runs_to_do"

-- Setup the colors

/colors[1] "Black"

/colors[2] "White"

prog_start.


prog_loop =

-- Get more sheep, and see what color they are.

get_sheep -> /qty_of_sheep /color

"/runs_done > New Sheep qty /qty_of_sheep color /colors[/color]"

-- Check the type of sheep, update respective count

any /color = 1 ->

-- update black sheep

add /black_sheep /qty_of_sheep -> /black_sheep

else

-- update white sheep

add /white_sheep /qty_of_sheep -> /white_sheep

enda.

-- Update the total no of sheep

add /white_sheep /black_sheep -> /total_sheep

-- Check how many sheep dogs we need for the sheep

check_dogs /total_sheep -> /dogs_needed


-- Check if its time to exit yet

any /runs_done >= /runs_to_do ->

exitprog

enda.

-- Next run

inc /runs_done


prog_loop.


get_sheep -> /qty_of_sheep 0 /color 1 =

---

Returns a random quantity of sheep, of a random color.

---

rand 0 100 -> /qty_of_sheep

-- Get the color of this batch of sheep.

-- 1 = black 2 = white

rand 1 2 -> /color


get_sheep.


check_dogs /no_of_sheep 0 -> /dogs_needed 0 =

---

Calc the number of sheep dogs we need to manage this

many sheep. Return the no of dogs we need.

---

mul 0.1 /no_of_sheep -> /dogs_needed

check_dogs.


prog_stop =

-- display the final results

print "We need /dogs_needed dogs to manage them"

print "Total sheep /total_sheep"

print "Black /black_sheep White /white_sheep"

print "Exit Prog"


prog_stop.




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