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Re: random matrix initialisation...

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  • Subject: [mg37591] Re: [mg37576] random matrix initialisation...
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 06:53:08 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Here is just one out of many ways of doing this with Mathematica:

In[1]:=
<<DiscreteMath`Combinatorica`

In[2]:=
X[m_,n_]:=Partition[
   Join[Array[1&,{n}],Array[0&,m^2-n]][[RandomPermutation[m^2]]],m]

In[3]:=
X[4,3]//MatrixForm

Out[3]//MatrixForm=
0   0   1   0

1   1   0   0

0   0   0   0

0   0   0   0

In[4]:=
X[4,3]//MatrixForm

Out[4]//MatrixForm=
0   1   0   0

0   0   0   0

0   1   0   0

0   0   0   1


On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 07:01 PM, Manuel Marques-Pita wrote:

>
> hello,
>
> i have a question regarding matrices. searched on the web and forums
> but maybe due to using wrong keywords i am not finding an answer...
>
> i need a way or function X to initialise matrices in mathematica such
> that each time i call X i get a matrix with a predetermined number of
> elements initialised as "1" and the rest as "0"
>
> examples
>
> X(4,3)
>
> {{0,0,0,0}, {0,0,1,0}, {0,0,0,1}, {1,0,0,0}}
>
> again X(4,3)
>
> {{1,1,0,0}, {0,0,0,0}, {0,0,0,0}, {0,1,0,0}}
>
> etc.. (first argument means that the matrix is 4x4 and second means
> that there should be 3 "1's" present in the matrix
>
> any help, pointers, etc will be appreciated!
>
> thanks a lot
>
> m
>
> --
>
>
>
Andrzej Kozlowski
Yokohama, Japan
http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/
http://platon.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/andrzej/



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