Dividing a range into subranges

• Hi! I need to write a code on casting dice and our instructor wants it to be like;
• 1- Our range is from 0 to 1
• 2- Divide the range to 6 (so we will have 6 sections to present a number on dice)
• 3- Pick a random number between 0 and 1
• 4- Determine that in which section is this number (if it is in second section that means dice showing 2)
• 5- Increase the counter by one
• 6- Run it N=100 cycles
• So I will have the number of accurances for each section than I'm going to make a plot.
• I'm stuck at second step. I can't define the sections such as;
• section1=(0:0.1667)
• section2=(0.1668:0.3333)
• .
• .
• .
• Can you help me out?
• Thanks

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

The linspace function is your friend here:

sections = linspace(0,1,6);

[Emre]

Thanks but I want all this sections to be seperated

[José-Luis]

So you want somebody to do your homework for you...

[Star Strider]

Still not certain I understand exactly what you want, but this may get you started:

sectlims = linspace(0,1,7);
for k1 = 1:length(sectlims)-1
    section(k1,:) = [sectlims(k1) sectlims(k1+1)];
end

You will need to test for ‘ > ’ the lower limits and ‘ <= ’ the upper limit to avoid overlap.