can a random number generator be used in a matrix?

I'm trying to make a minesweeper game in matlab so I set up a matrix A=zeros(10) and I wanted to know if I could write the code so that 1s will be randomly scattered throughout the matrix whenever the code is run.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

The randi function would be good for that, and thresholding the rand function would also work.

M = randi([0 1],10)

M = 10×10

1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0

M = +(rand(10)>=0.5)

M = 10×10

0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1

Experiment to get appropriate results.

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[Aidan Palermo]

this is exactly what I was trying to do, thank you!

[Steven Lord]

Do you want a certain probability of each cell being a mine or do you want a certain fixed number of mines? In the latter case, use randperm to identify a few locations where the mines are located then fill in those locations with linear indexing.

[Star Strider]

@Aidan Palermo — As always, my pleasure!