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Haris Spahija
Haris Spahija

Reputation: 83

How to calculate the sum of multiple arrays?

I am trying to solve an equation where I add numbers from a list of arrays following the indices.

Each array of a list are a randomly generated fixed-length array of 4 numbers like so:

const list = [
  [2, 9, 1, 2],
  [2, 3, 9, 4],
  [4, 7, 8, 1]
]

So what I am trying to do is get the sum of each number of each index from each array. Like so:

const list = [
  [2, 9, 1, 2],
  [2, 3, 9, 4],
  [4, 7, 8, 1]
]

// expectedResult = [8, 19, 18, 7];

How can I achieve this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8319

Answers (6)

Shidersz
Shidersz

Reputation: 17190

This is another approach that uses map() over the first array, nested with a reduce() that generated the total of the corresponding column.

const list = [
  [2, 9, 1, 2],
  [2, 3, 9, 4],
  [4, 7, 8, 1]
];

const sums = list[0].map((x, idx) => list.reduce((sum, curr) => sum + curr[idx], 0));

console.log(sums);
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Upvotes: 7

gkelly
gkelly

Reputation: 288

const list = [
  [2, 9, 1, 2],
  [2, 3, 9, 4],
  [4, 7, 8, 1],
];

const result = list.reduce((a, b) => a.map((c, i) => c + b[i]));

console.log(result);

Update: an explanation was asked for.

First of all reduce will given an array (of arrays) and want to reduce it down to single value (an array). To do this it will call the first arrow function 2 times. The first time a will be [2,9,1,2] and b will be [2,3,9,4]. With a and b the first arrow function will return a map of a. With a being an array it will return an array where each element is added to the corresponding element of array b. The result of this first map will be [4,12,10,6]. reduce will now call the first arrow function a second time with a (the first map result) [4,12,10,6] and b (the final array element of the input [4,7,8,1]). This arrow function will do the same thing as before: returning an array where each a element is added to the corresponding element of b. map will return [8,19,18,7]. Since there are no more input elements reduce will return that value (the array).

Upvotes: 5

P Varga
P Varga

Reputation: 20229

Use nested loops:

const blocklist = [[2,9,1,2], [2,3,9,4], [4,7,8,1]], calculatedBlocks = [];
for (let j = 0, sum = 0; j < blocklist[0].length; j++, sum = 0) {
  for (let i = 0; i < blocklist.length; i++) sum += blocklist[i][j];
  calculatedBlocks.push(sum);
}

console.log(calculatedBlocks);

Upvotes: -1

zfrisch
zfrisch

Reputation: 8660

You can use .reduce in combination with an iterative for...of loop that pulls out the index and value of each inner array using v.entries. Then simply assign them by index to the accumulator Array and add them together. 

let expectedResult = list.reduce((a,v) => {
 for(let [i, n] of v.entries()) a[i] = (a[i] || 0) + n
 return a;
}, []);


const list = [
  [2, 9, 1, 2],
  [2, 3, 9, 4],
  [4, 7, 8, 1]
]

let expectedResult = list.reduce((a,v) => {
 for(let [i, n] of v.entries()) a[i] = (a[i] || 0) + n
 return a;
}, []);

console.log(expectedResult);

Upvotes: -1

Code Maniac
Code Maniac

Reputation: 37755

You can use reduce and forEach.

Here we create an array with index we add particular element to particular index. and than just take the values out from object.

const list = [[2, 9, 1, 2],[2, 3, 9, 4],[4, 7, 8, 1]]

let op = list.reduce((op,inp)=>{
   inp.forEach((e,i)=>op[i] = op[i] ? op[i]+e : e)
   return op
},[])

console.log(op)

Upvotes: 1

Naga Sai A
Naga Sai A

Reputation: 10975

To achieve expected result, use below option using two loops with forEach

const blockList = [[2, 9, 1, 2], [2, 3, 9, 4], [4, 7, 8, 1]];
const result = [];

blockList.forEach((v, index) =>
  v.forEach((val, i) => {
    result[i] = result[i] ? result[i] : 0;
    result[i] += val;
  })
);

console.log(result);

codepen - https://codepen.io/nagasai/pen/yZRrKy?editors=1010

Upvotes: 1

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