Change project structure to a Maven Java project + Refactor (#2816)

src/main/java/com/thealgorithms/misc/Sparcity.java

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+package com.thealgorithms.misc;
+
+import java.util.*;
+
+/*
+*A matrix is sparse if many of its coefficients are zero (In general if 2/3rd of matrix elements are 0, it is considered as sparse). 
+*The interest in sparsity arises because its exploitation can lead to enormous computational savings and because many large matrix problems that occur in practice are sparse.
+*
+* @author Ojasva Jain
+ */
+
+class Sparcity {
+
+    /*
+    * @return Sparcity of matrix
+    * 
+    * where sparcity = number of zeroes/total elements in matrix
+    *
+     */
+    static double sparcity(double[][] mat) {
+        int zero = 0;
+        //Traversing the matrix to count number of zeroes 
+        for (int i = 0; i < mat.length; i++) {
+            for (int j = 0; j < mat[i].length; j++) {
+                if (mat[i][j] == 0) {
+                    zero++;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        //return sparcity
+        return ((double) zero / (mat.length * mat[1].length));
+    }
+
+    //Driver method
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
+        System.out.println("Enter number of rows in matrix: ");
+        int n = in.nextInt();
+        System.out.println("Enter number of Columns in matrix: ");
+        int m = in.nextInt();
+
+        System.out.println("Enter Matrix elements: ");
+        double[][] mat = new double[n][m];
+        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+            for (int j = 0; j < m; j++) {
+                mat[i][j] = in.nextDouble();
+            }
+        }
+        System.out.println("Sparcity of matrix is: " + sparcity(mat));
+    }
+}