This code repeatedly appends random values from the vector `x`...
This code repeatedly appends random values from the vector x
(which contains [0, 1]
) to the initially empty vector v
until the sum of all elements in v
is 8 or greater. Here's a step-by-step explanation of what each part does:
-
v = [];
: Initializes an empty vectorv
. -
x = [0 1];
: Initializes a vectorx
containing two values:0
and1
. -
while sum(v) < 8
: Starts a loop that continues as long as the sum of all elements inv
is less than 8. -
Inside the loop:
randi(2)
: Generates a random integer between 1 and 2 (inclusive).x(randi(2))
: Selects a random element from the vectorx
. Sincex
contains the values[0, 1]
, this results in either0
(if the random value is 1) or1
(if the random value is 2).v = [v x(randi(2))];
: Appends the randomly selected value fromx
to the end of the vectorv
. Effectively,v
grows in size in each iteration.
-
The process repeats until
sum(v)
(the sum of all elements inv
) is 8 or greater. Sincex
contains only0
and1
, the only non-zero contributions come from appending1
s, so this guarantees that the loop will eventually halt.
The final result is that v
will contain a random sequence of 0
s and 1
s, where the number of 1
s in the vector is enough to make their total sum at least 8
.