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Hippocrates
Hippocrates

Reputation: 2540

Finding all combinations in javascript

I am creating a game and I need to generate some game pieces. Each piece is an array consisting of 4 numbers(each represents a property of the piece) ranging from 0-2. I need to generate all combinations to get all the game pieces.

So I would need [1, 0, 2, 0], [2, 0, 0, 1], [0, 0, 0, 0], [1, 0, 1, 0] etc..

There should be 81 total combinations of [a, b, c, d] where each variable is a number 0-2.

I am using javascript but any psudocode would be helpful.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1465

Answers (3)

user1046334
user1046334

Reputation:

If it is a homework, tag it as such.

var BASE = 3, LEN = 4, LIMIT = Math.round(Math.pow(BASE, LEN));
var c = [];
for (var i = 0; i < LIMIT; ++i) {
  var item = [];
  for (var j = 0, k = i; j < LEN; ++j, k = Math.floor(k/BASE)) {
    item.push(k % BASE);
  }
  c.push(item);
}

Here is a more tricky solution but showing the math behind it better, hopefully:

var BASE = 3, LEN = 4;
var powers = [];
for (var i = 0, LIMIT = 1; i < LEN; ++i, LIMIT *= BASE) {
  powers.push(LIMIT);
}
var c = [];
for (i = 0; i < LIMIT; ++i) {
  c.push(powers.map(function(basePower) {
    return Math.floor(i/basePower) % BASE;
  }));
}

Upvotes: 3

katspaugh
katspaugh

Reputation: 17939

var BASE = 3, COMB_LEN = 4

var max = parseInt(new Array(COMB_LEN + 1).join(BASE - 1), BASE),
    comb = new Array(COMB_LEN + 1).join(0).split('').map(Number)

var combinations = [], i, n
for (i = 0; i <= max; i++) {
    n = i.toString(BASE).split('').map(Number)
    combinations.push(
        comb.slice(0, COMB_LEN - n.length).concat(n)
    )
}

Upvotes: 1

mplungjan
mplungjan

Reputation: 178422

Mine

var arr=[];
for (var str,i=0;i<81;i++) {
  str = i.toString(3);
  arr.push(("000"+str).slice(-4)); // Hmm, I thought slice returned an array.
}

Here is an update taking into account the comments from @katspaugh and @herby

var arr=[];
for (var str,i=81;i<162;i++) {
  str = i.toString(3);
  arr.push((str).slice(-4).split('').map(Number));
}

Upvotes: 3

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