From c62e6f26f47282f8558550eefd768ecff302e29d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erich Eckner <git@eckner.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:48:34 +0100
Subject: try up to 10 times before starting next run

---
 markov.lpr | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/markov.lpr b/markov.lpr
index 005bf35..043e7ac 100644
--- a/markov.lpr
+++ b/markov.lpr
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ uses
 
 var
   wordFileName,s:    string;
-  count:             longint;
+  count,trials:      longint;
   depth,i,j,current: int64;
   c:                 char;
   f:                 tMyStringList;
@@ -113,30 +113,32 @@ begin
 
   // generation
   while count>0 do begin
-    current:=0;
-    s:='';
-    repeat
-      current:=current * (length(i2c)+1) mod length(probabilities);
-      total:=random;
-      while total>0 do begin
-        total:=total - probabilities[current];
-        inc(current);
-      end;
-      dec(current);
-      if current mod (length(i2c)+1) = 0 then
-        break
-      else
-        s:=s+i2c[current mod (length(i2c)+1)];
-      if length(s)>256 then begin
-        dec(count);
-        s:=f[0];
+    for trials:=0 to 9 do begin
+      current:=0;
+      s:='';
+      repeat
+        current:=current * (length(i2c)+1) mod length(probabilities);
+        total:=random;
+        while total>0 do begin
+          total:=total - probabilities[current];
+          inc(current);
+        end;
+        dec(current);
+        if current mod (length(i2c)+1) = 0 then
+          break
+        else
+          s:=s+i2c[current mod (length(i2c)+1)];
+        if length(s)>256 then begin
+          s:=f[0];
+          break;
+        end;
+      until false;
+      if (not f.hatZeile(s,false)) and (length(s)>3) then begin;
+        writeln(s);
         break;
       end;
-    until false;
-    if not f.hatZeile(s,false) then begin;
-      writeln(s);
-      dec(count);
     end;
+    dec(count);
   end;
 
   f.free;
-- 
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