Question

I’m having a hardtime figuring out on how can I generate a twice repeating random number ranges from 1-8 and make it a matrix like this:

5 8 2 5

3 6 4 1

7 6 2 3

4 7 8 1

By the way I plan to make this on android.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I assume you want a randomized 4x4matrix containing all the numbers 1-8 twice.

You can easily turn a list of 16 numbers into a 4x4matrix. So what you need is a randomized list of the 1-8 numbers.

List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>();
for (int i = 1; i <= 8; i++) {
  list.add(i);
  list.add(i);
}
// list  = [1,1,2,2,3,3,..,8,8];
Collections.shuffle(list);
// gives something like [1,4,5,2,4,7,..8,1]

To turn this list in a matrix, just read row by row, 4 numbers at a time.