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to Saddle Points in the Scala Track

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Solution

Detect saddle points in a matrix.

So say you have a matrix like so:

    0  1  2
  |---------
0 | 9  8  7
1 | 5  3  2     <--- saddle point at (1,0)
2 | 6  6  7

It has a saddle point at (1, 0).

It's called a "saddle point" because it is greater than or equal to every element in its row and less than or equal to every element in its column.

A matrix may have zero or more saddle points.

Your code should be able to provide the (possibly empty) list of all the saddle points for any given matrix.

Note that you may find other definitions of matrix saddle points online, but the tests for this exercise follow the above unambiguous definition.

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To run the tests simply run the command sbt test in the exercise directory.

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Source

J Dalbey's Programming Practice problems http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/103/Projects/ProgrammingPractice.html

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SaddlePointsTest.scala

import org.scalatest.{Matchers, FunSuite}

/** @version 1.1.0 */
class SaddlePointsTest extends FunSuite with Matchers {

  test("Can identify single saddle point") {
    Matrix(List(List(9, 8, 7), List(5, 3, 2), List(6, 6, 7))).saddlePoints should be(
      Set((1, 0)))
  }

  test("Can identify that empty matrix has no saddle points") {
    pending
    Matrix(List(List())).saddlePoints should be(Set())
  }

  test("Can identify lack of saddle points when there are none") {
    pending
    Matrix(List(List(1, 2, 3), List(3, 1, 2), List(2, 3, 1))).saddlePoints should be(
      Set())
  }

  test("Can identify multiple saddle points") {
    pending
    Matrix(List(List(4, 5, 4), List(3, 5, 5), List(1, 5, 4))).saddlePoints should be(
      Set((0, 1), (1, 1), (2, 1)))
  }

  test("Can identify saddle point in bottom right corner") {
    pending
    Matrix(List(List(8, 7, 9), List(6, 7, 6), List(3, 2, 5))).saddlePoints should be(
      Set((2, 2)))
  }
}
case class Matrix(list: List[List[Int]]) {
  val saddlePoints: Set[(Int, Int)] = (for {
    row <- list.indices
    col <- list.head.indices
    transposed = list.transpose
    if list(row).max == list(row)(col) && transposed(col).min == list(row)(col)
  } yield (row, col)).toSet
}

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