I have these indexes:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,etc...
Which are indexes of nodes in a matrix (including diagonal elements):
1
2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21
etc...
and I need to get i,j
coordinates from these indexes:
1,1
2,1 2,2
3,1 3,2 3,3
4,1 4,2 4,3 4,4
5,1 5,2 5,3 5,4 5,5
6,1 6,2 6,3 6,4 6,5 6,6
etc...
When I need to calculate coordinates I have only one index and cannot access others.
Not optimized at all :
int j = idx;
int i = 1;
while(j > i) {
j -= i++;
}
Optimized :
int i = std::ceil(std::sqrt(2 * idx + 0.25) - 0.5);
int j = idx - (i-1) * i / 2;
And here is the demonstration:
You're looking for i such that :
sumRange(1, i-1) < idx && idx <= sumRange(1, i)
when sumRange(min, max) sum integers between min and max, both inxluded. But since you know that :
sumRange(1, i) = i * (i + 1) / 2
Then you have :
idx <= i * (i+1) / 2
=> 2 * idx <= i * (i+1)
=> 2 * idx <= i² + i + 1/4 - 1/4
=> 2 * idx + 1/4 <= (i + 1/2)²
=> sqrt(2 * idx + 1/4) - 1/2 <= i