In a sequence of 0 and 1, how to make sure that no same values appear more than 2 times consecutively?

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I am generating a sequence of equal number of 0's and 1's . A = [ 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0] My goal is to not have either 0 or 1 be repeated more than 2 times consecutively. in the above array A, you can see that 1 1 1 appears so somehow I need to switch it around so that one of them becomes 0 and if there is something like 0 0 0 then switch one of them to 1. I have tried few algorithms which work for few iterations but then run into an error.
if true
nums = mod( reshape(randperm(1*12), 1, 12), 2)
%%%%%algorithm to check for a condition repeating more than 2 times and fix it
for i = 1:length(nums)-2
if nums(i+1)==nums(i) & nums(i+2) ==nums(i)
if nums(i) == 1
nums(i+2) = 0;
else
nums(i+2) = 1;
end
end
end end
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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John BG
John BG on 21 Apr 2016
To Image Analyst:
from the question 'My goal is to not have either 0 or 1 be repeated more than 2 times consecutively.'
yes, you can have 010 or 0110, but you cannot have 01110 ..

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Jon
Jon on 19 Apr 2016
Edited: Jon on 19 Apr 2016
Just modify your loop a little bit:
for i = 3:length(nums)
if nums(i) == nums(i-1) && nums(i) == nums(i-2)
if nums(i) == 1
nums(i) = 0;
else
nums(i) = 1;
end
end
end
Oh, I see that you also require the same number of 1s and 0s. This doesn't ensure that. The easiest solution (though certainly not the fastest) is to add a check at the end that there are the same number; if not, reiterate until so.
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Dushyant Dhundara
Dushyant Dhundara on 19 Apr 2016
Edited: Dushyant Dhundara on 19 Apr 2016
Same issue as I described above, doing this it fixes the sequence but it increments the number of 1's or 0's. Please test this sequence: nums = [1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1] Can you show what kind of check you mean? Do i need a counter for that?

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John BG
John BG on 21 Apr 2016
Dushyant
the following generates sequences of random even length with your requirements of no longer than paired 1s or paired 0s bursts:
L=randi([0 10],1,1) % choose random amount of ones
header=randi([0 1],1,2) % choose random intitial 2 bits
S=zeros(1,2*L) % init sequence to all zeros
S(1)=header(1);S(2)=header(2) % cast header
k=3 % pointer to sequence bit to decide
n1s=L;n0s=L % meters counting how many ones and zeros left in each clip
while (n1s>0 && n0s>0)
if (S(k-2)==0 && S(k-1)==0 && n1s>0) % previous bits are 00
S(k)=1
n1s=n1s-1
k=k+1
end
if (S(k-2)==1 && S(k-1)==1 && n0s>0) % previous bits are 11
S(k)=0
n0s=n0s-1
k=k+1
end
if (S(k-2)==0 && S(k-1)==1) % previous bits are 01
S(k)=randi([0 1],1,1)
if (S(k)==1 && n1s>0)
n1s=n1s-1
end
if (S(k)==0 && n0s>0)
n0s=n0s-1
end
k=k+1
end
if (S(k-2)==1 && S(k-1)==0) % previous bits are 10
S(k)=randi([0 1],1,1)
if (S(k)==1 && Ln1s>0)
n1s=n1s-1
end
if (S(k)==0 && n0s>0)
n0s=n0s-1
end
k=k+1
end
end
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thanks in advance
John

Dushyant Dhundara
Dushyant Dhundara on 21 Apr 2016
I am not sure if its doing what I was looking for, but I appreciate your effort and help. I already found out a solution to the initial questions posted.
Thank you again

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