hack: Generalize geom mean to negative values...

by falling back to the arithmetic mean if there are any

lib/findPaths.js

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import {
   numToAlphabeticalString,
   formatLargeOrSmall,
   avg,
-  geomMean,
+  hackyGeomMean,
 } from "../lib/utils.js";
 
 /* Functions */
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ export function CreateTable({ tableRows }) {
               <td className="">{abridgeArrayAndDisplay(row.distances)}</td>
               <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
               <td className="">
-                {formatLargeOrSmall(geomMean(row.distances))}
+                {formatLargeOrSmall(hackyGeomMean(row.distances))}
               </td>
             </tr>
           ))}

lib/utils.js

@@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ export const geomMean = (arr) => {
   return result;
 };
 
+export const hackyGeomMean = (arr) => {
+  let nonPositiveNumbers = arr.filter((x) => x <= 0);
+  if (nonPositiveNumbers.length == 0) {
+    return geomMean(arr);
+  } else {
+    return avg(arr);
+  }
+};
+
 export function conservativeNumMergeSortSteps(n) {
   return Math.ceil((expectedNumMergeSortSteps(n) + maxMergeSortSteps(n)) / 2);
 }