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feat: add Bell Numbers algorithm using Aitken's Array (#7219)
* feat: added Bell Numbers algorithm using Aitken's Array * style: applied clang-format fixes
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package com.thealgorithms.maths;
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/**
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* The Bell numbers count the number of partitions of a set.
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* The n-th Bell number is the number of ways a set of n elements can be partitioned
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* into nonempty subsets.
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*
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* <p>
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* This implementation uses the Bell Triangle (Aitken's array) method.
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* Time Complexity: O(n^2)
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* Space Complexity: O(n^2)
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* </p>
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*
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* @author Chahat Sandhu, <a href="https://github.com/singhc7">singhc7</a>
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* @see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_number">Bell Number (Wikipedia)</a>
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*/
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public final class BellNumbers {
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private BellNumbers() {
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}
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/**
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* Calculates the n-th Bell number using the Bell Triangle.
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*
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* @param n the index of the Bell number (must be non-negative)
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* @return the n-th Bell number
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* @throws IllegalArgumentException if n is negative or n > 25
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*/
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public static long compute(int n) {
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if (n < 0) {
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throw new IllegalArgumentException("n must be non-negative");
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}
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if (n == 0) {
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return 1;
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}
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if (n > 25) {
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throw new IllegalArgumentException("n must be <= 25. For larger n, use BigInteger implementation.");
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}
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// We use a 2D array to visualize the Bell Triangle
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long[][] bellTriangle = new long[n + 1][n + 1];
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// Base case: The triangle starts with 1
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bellTriangle[0][0] = 1;
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for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
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// Rule 1: The first number in a new row is the LAST number of the previous row
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bellTriangle[i][0] = bellTriangle[i - 1][i - 1];
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// Rule 2: Fill the rest of the row by adding the previous neighbor and the upper-left neighbor
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for (int j = 1; j <= i; j++) {
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bellTriangle[i][j] = bellTriangle[i][j - 1] + bellTriangle[i - 1][j - 1];
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}
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}
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// The Bell number B_n is the first number in the n-th row
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return bellTriangle[n][0];
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}
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}
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