Longest Run Tosses Matlab

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KB
KB on 5 Jun 2020
Commented: Rena Berman on 12 Oct 2020
Write an efficient function which computes the length of the longest run of heads in an arbitrary sequence of heads and tails ?
The excercise is about a coin toss and i would really appreciate if someone could help me with this excercise.
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madhan ravi
madhan ravi on 5 Jun 2020
KBB it's really clear that your professor found this link ;) and thank you for disrespecting others effort.
Rena Berman
Rena Berman on 12 Oct 2020
(Answers Dev) Restored edit

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 5 Jun 2020
at any one time you only need a few pieces of information:
  • are you currently in a run
  • length of the current run
  • maximum length of run encountered so far
if you are not in a run and you encounter a T then move on to the next entry
if you are in a run and you encounter a T then compare the length of the current run to the maximum so far to determine if you have a new record. Afterwards either way mark yourself as no longer being in a run. then move on to the next entry.
if you are in a run and encounter a H then increment the length of the current run. Then move on to the next entry.
I left out a detail that you should be able to catch.
You can get away with using just two variables aside from the loop index.

KSSV
KSSV on 5 Jun 2020
Edited: KSSV on 5 Jun 2020
N = 2 ; % [1- heads, 2-tails]
toss = 100 ; %number of tossings
state = zeros(toss,1) ;
for i = 1:toss
state(i) = randperm(N,1) ;
end
% split the states which are continuous 1 and/or 2
S = mat2cell(state, diff([0; find(diff(state)); size(state,1)]));
% Get the length of sequence of states
L = cellfun(@length,S) ;
% Get the maximum length sequence
[val,id] = max(L) ;
fprintf("State:%d is repeated maximum of %d times\n",unique(S{id}),val)
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 5 Jun 2020
this was clearly a homework assignment :(
KSSV
KSSV on 5 Jun 2020
You should understand first how/ what the code is.
Thanks is accepting the answer. :)

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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 5 Jun 2020
Edited: Stephen23 on 5 Jun 2020
Simpler and more efficient:
>> N = 17; % number of tosses
>> V = randi(2,1,N) % 1=tails 2=heads
V =
2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 2
>> D = diff([false,V==2,false]); % 2=heads
>> L = find(D<0)-find(D>0);
>> max(L)
ans = 6

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