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Re: Matrix question

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  • Subject: [mg60311] Re: Matrix question
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:36:33 -0400 (EDT)
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On 9/10/05 at 6:46 AM, sandog at mail.gr (sandog) wrote:

>i want to create a NxN matrix with zeros but i want a percentage of
>the matrix spots to be one at random spots any idea? cause i have
>no clue how to do that. Any help appreciated thx .

One way to do this would be as follows

mat = SparseArray@Table[
       {Random[Integer,n],Random[Integer,n}->1,{Floor[p n^2]}]

where n is the size of the matrix you want and p is the percentage of ones you want. Note if p is large, there may be more efficient ways to achieve what you want than using SparseArray.
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