// Utilities for generating sets of coordinates based on // permutations, even permutations and changes of sign. // Based on https://www.qfbox.info/epermute function pandita(a) { const n = a.length; for( let k = n - 2; k >= 0; k-- ) { if( a[k] < a[k + 1] ) { for( let l = n - 1; l >= 0; l-- ) { if( a[k] < a[l] ) { const tmp = a[k]; a[k] = a[l]; a[l] = tmp; const revtail = a.slice(k + 1); revtail.reverse(); for( let i = 0; i < revtail.length; i++ ) { a[k + 1 + i] = revtail[i]; } return Math.floor(revtail.length / 2) + 1; } } console.log("Shouldn't get here"); process.exit(); } } return false; } function permutations(a) { a.sort(); const ps = [ [...a] ]; while( pandita(a) ) { ps.push([...a]); } return ps; } function permutations_even(a) { a.sort(); let parity = 'even'; const ps = [ [...a] ]; let running = true; while( running ) { const s = pandita(a); if( s ) { if( parity === 'even' ) { if( s % 2 === 1 ) { parity = 'odd'; } } else { if( s % 2 === 1 ) { parity = 'even'; } } if( parity === 'even' ) { ps.push([...a]); } } else { running = false; } } return ps; }