Re: Matrix question
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- Subject: [mg60337] Re: Matrix question
- From: "Dr. Wolfgang Hintze" <weh at snafu.de>
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 06:07:35 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <dfudth$1qo$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi,
understanding that you are looking for a matrix in which a percentage p
of random positions has the value 1 whereas the rest is 0 (same
understanding as David Park and Bill Rowe) my solution (very
straighforward, working without any package and for Version 4) is
Parameters of the problem
n = 10;
p = 0.3;
Init
m = Floor[n^2*p];
A = Array[0 & , {n, n}];
Select a set of m random positions {i,j}
r = {};
While[Length[r] < m, AppendTo[g, {1 + Random[Integer, n - 1], 1 +
Random[Integer, n - 1]}];
r = Union[r]]
Assign 1 to the random positions in matrix A
Do[A[[r[[i,1]],r[[i,2]]]] = 1, {i, 1, Length[r]}]
MatrixForm[A]
Regards,
Wolfgang
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 .
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