random matrix with a given number of specified elements
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Hello,
How can we generate a matrix n x n Whose elements can be only two values AND where number of one of those two elements is given?
For instance, in the 3 x 3 matrix elements can be only 0 et 1, But I want exactly 4 elements to be zeros (and therefore 5 elements to be ones)
Thank you
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  madhan ravi
      
      
 on 3 Aug 2020
				
      Edited: madhan ravi
      
      
 on 3 Aug 2020
  
			Did you try something for your homework ?
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  madhan ravi
      
      
 on 3 Aug 2020
        
      Edited: madhan ravi
      
      
 on 3 Aug 2020
  
       v = [repelem(1, 5), repelem(0, 4)];
 Wanted = v(reshape(randperm(numel(v)), 3, []))
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  Bruno Luong
      
      
 on 3 Aug 2020
        
      Edited: Bruno Luong
      
      
 on 3 Aug 2020
  
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matsz = [3,3];
n1 = 4; % number of desired 1s, no need to specify for 0s
Generate
B = zeros(matsz); % + 0; 
B(randperm(numel(B),n1)) = 1;
Quick check
B
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