Add comments to combination algorithms.

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Oleksii Trekhleb 2019-01-04 17:03:35 +02:00
parent 6261d0e9bb
commit f08fc37dad
2 changed files with 12 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
* @return {*[]}
*/
export default function combineWithRepetitions(comboOptions, comboLength) {
// If the length of the combination is 1 then each element of the original array
// is a combination itself.
if (comboLength === 1) {
return comboOptions.map(comboOption => [comboOption]);
}
@ -11,14 +13,16 @@ export default function combineWithRepetitions(comboOptions, comboLength) {
// Init combinations array.
const combos = [];
// Eliminate characters one by one and concatenate them to
// combinations of smaller lengths.
// Remember characters one by one and concatenate them to combinations of smaller lengths.
// We don't extract elements here because the repetitions are allowed.
comboOptions.forEach((currentOption, optionIndex) => {
// Generate combinations of smaller size.
const smallerCombos = combineWithRepetitions(
comboOptions.slice(optionIndex),
comboLength - 1,
);
// Concatenate currentOption with all combinations of smaller size.
smallerCombos.forEach((smallerCombo) => {
combos.push([currentOption].concat(smallerCombo));
});

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@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
* @return {*[]}
*/
export default function combineWithoutRepetitions(comboOptions, comboLength) {
// If the length of the combination is 1 then each element of the original array
// is a combination itself.
if (comboLength === 1) {
return comboOptions.map(comboOption => [comboOption]);
}
@ -11,14 +13,16 @@ export default function combineWithoutRepetitions(comboOptions, comboLength) {
// Init combinations array.
const combos = [];
// Eliminate characters one by one and concatenate them to
// combinations of smaller lengths.
// Extract characters one by one and concatenate them to combinations of smaller lengths.
// We need to extract them because we don't want to have repetitions after concatenation.
comboOptions.forEach((currentOption, optionIndex) => {
// Generate combinations of smaller size.
const smallerCombos = combineWithoutRepetitions(
comboOptions.slice(optionIndex + 1),
comboLength - 1,
);
// Concatenate currentOption with all combinations of smaller size.
smallerCombos.forEach((smallerCombo) => {
combos.push([currentOption].concat(smallerCombo));
});