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the following code finds patches there @ least 1 male , 1 female present, on each such patch, has 1 female hatch offspring turtle of random gender.

turtles-own [ gender]  setup  ask patches [  sprout  1  [set size 0.2  set color pink  set gender "female"   ]]  ask patches [  sprout  1  [set size 0.2   set color blue   set gender "male"     ]]   reset-ticks   end  to-report parents-here?  ;; patch procedure report any? turtles-here [gender = "male"]      ,      any? turtles-here [gender = "female"]  end  go ask patches [parents-here?] [ ask one-of turtles-here [gender = "female"] [   hatch 1 [     set gender one-of ["male" "female"]   ]  ]  ]  tick  end 

instead of asking 1 female hatch, want ask if 1 female present ask hatch " or " if 2 females present ask them hatch ( minmum 1 , maximum two). tried write it

ask n-of 2 turtles-here ............ 

but had error said patch has 1 turtles

i tried use ( error) tried write

ask n-of (1 + random 2 ) 

as minimum , maximum, , wrong.

thank in advance

this simplest solution can think of:

let females turtles-here [gender = "female"] ask n-of (min list 2 count females) females [   hatch 1 [     ...   ] ] 

why min list 2 count females? it's little counterintuitive need use primitive called min when want maximum of 2. result of min list 2 ... 2 or smaller. or if break down cases:

• if count females 0, min list 2 count females 0.
• if count females 1, min list 2 count females 1.
• if count females 2 or more, min list 2 count females 2.

which, if understand correctly, trying for.