How to generate all possible vectors where each element can take one of two values
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Given vectors a and b both of length N, I want to generate the 2^N vectors for which element i is either a[i] or b[i]. For example, if a=[1,2,3] and b=[4,5,6], then I want to generate
C =
1 2 3
1 2 6
1 5 3
1 5 6
4 2 3
4 2 6
4 5 3
4 5 6
I can do this with the following code
N = length(a);
M = ff2n(N);
Mc = abs(M-1);
C = a.*Mc + b.*M;
but I'm wondering if there is a better way to accomplish this, possibly not requiring ff2n which is not part of standard MATLAB installation? Is there a way to use nchoosek or permute or something like that?
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Paul
on 23 Jun 2022
a = [1 2 3];
b = [4 5 6];
n = numel(a);
C = mat2cell([a; b],2,ones(1,n));
[D{1:n}] = ndgrid(C{:});
E = sortrows(cell2mat(cellfun(@(x) x(:),D,'UniformOutput',false)))
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Torsten
on 21 Jun 2022
Generate all possible combinations of 0 and 1:
m = 3;
justRows = dec2bin(0:2^m-1)-'0'
Now replace the 0's by a(i) and the 1 by b(i).
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