fix: Make geom mean robust to low numbers by adding logs rather than multiplying small numbers. fix display of the number 1, which wasn't in any of the cases.

lib/findPaths.js

@@ -344,4 +344,3 @@ console.log(JSON.stringify(paths, null, 2))
 let distances = findDistance({sourceElementId:2, targetElementId:4, links, nodes})
 console.log(distances)
 */
-

lib/utils.js

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ export const truncateValueForDisplay = (value) => {
     return Number(Math.round(value).toPrecision(2));
   } else if (value > 1) {
     return Math.round(value * 10) / 10;
-  } else if (value < 1) {
+  } else if (value <= 1) {
+    return value;
   }
 };
 export const _transformSliderValueToPracticalValue = (value) =>
@@ -37,15 +38,19 @@ export function numToAlphabeticalString(num) {
 }
 
 export function formatLargeOrSmall(num) {
-  if (num > 1) {
+  let result;
-    return toLocale(truncateValueForDisplay(num));
+  if (num >= 1) {
+    result = toLocale(truncateValueForDisplay(num));
   } else if (num > 0) {
-    return num.toFixed(-Math.floor(Math.log(num) / Math.log(10)) + 1);
+    result = num.toFixed(-Math.floor(Math.log(num) / Math.log(10)) + 1);
   } else if (num < -1) {
-    return num.toFixed(-Math.floor(Math.log(-num) / Math.log(10)) + 1);
+    result = num.toFixed(-Math.floor(Math.log(-num) / Math.log(10)) + 1);
   } else {
-    return toLocale(num); //return "~0"
+    result = toLocale(num); //return "~0"
   }
+
+  console.log(`${num} -> ${result}`);
+  return result;
 }
 const firstFewMaxMergeSortSequence = [
   0, 0, 1, 3, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49, 54, 59, 64, 69,
@@ -86,9 +91,17 @@ export function expectedNumMergeSortSteps(n) {
   }
 }
 
-export const avg = (arr) => arr.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0) / arr.length;
+const sum = (arr) => arr.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
 
-export const geomMean = (arr) =>
+export const avg = (arr) => sum(arr) / arr.length;
-  arr.reduce((a, b) => a * b, 1) ^ (1 / arr.length);
+
+export const geomMean = (arr) => {
+  let n = arr.length;
+  let logavg = sum(arr.map((x) => Math.log(x))); // works for low numbers much better
+  let result = Math.exp(logavg / n);
+  return result;
+};
+
+// export const geomMean = (arr) => arr.reduce((a, b) => a * b, 1); // ^ (1 / arr.length); // didn't work so well for low numbers.
 
 export const increasingList = (n) => Array.from(Array(n).keys());