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