Applescript: how to record and return how many times a number appears when using a random number generator

Question

I create one rng and repeat another rng that many times like so:
set x to (random number from 0 to 250)
repeat x times
  set rn to (random number from 1 to 10)
end repeat
now what i would like to do is record and return how many times 'rn' comes up with one particular number. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You could set up a list and increment the contents of a particular index each time it comes up, for example:
set how_many to {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0} -- 1 thru 10
set x to (random number from 0 to 250)
repeat x times
  set rn to (random number from 1 to 10)
  set item rn of how_many to (item rn of how_many) + 1
end repeat
return how_many