Example implementation of gauss elimination in javascript

gausselimination.js

function print(M, msg) {
  console.log("======" + msg + "=========")
  for(var k=0; k<M.length; ++k) {
    console.log(M[k]);
  }
  console.log("==========================")
}

function diagonalize(M) {
  var m = M.length;
  var n = M[0].length;
  for(var k=0; k<Math.min(m,n); ++k) {
    // Find the k-th pivot
    i_max = findPivot(M, k);
    if (A[i_max, k] == 0)
      throw "matrix is singular";
    swap_rows(M, k, i_max);
    // Do for all rows below pivot
    for(var i=k+1; i<m; ++i) {
      // Do for all remaining elements in current row:
      var c = A[i][k] / A[k][k];
      for(var j=k+1; j<n; ++j) {
        A[i][j] = A[i][j] - A[k][j] * c;
      }
      // Fill lower triangular matrix with zeros
      A[i][k] = 0;
    }
  }
}

function findPivot(M, k) {
  var i_max = k;
  for(var i=k+1; i<M.length; ++i) {
    if (Math.abs(M[i][k]) > Math.abs(M[i_max][k])) {
      i_max = i;
    }
  }
  return i_max;
}

function swap_rows(M, i_max, k) {
  if (i_max != k) {
    var temp = A[i_max];
    A[i_max] = A[k];
    A[k] = temp;
  }
}

function makeM(A, b) {
  for(var i=0; i<A.length; ++i) {
    A[i].push(b[i]);
  }
}

function substitute(M) {
  var m = M.length;
  for(var i=m-1; i>=0; --i) {
    var x = M[i][m] / M[i][i];
    for(var j=i-1; j>=0; --j) {
      M[j][m] -= x * M[j][i];
      M[j][i] = 0;
    }
    M[i][m] = x;
    M[i][i] = 1;
  }
}

function extractX(M) {
  var x = [];
  var m = A.length;
  var n = A[0].length;
  for(var i=0; i<m; ++i){
    x.push(A[i][n-1]);
  }
  return x;
}

function solve(A, b) {
  //print(A, "A");
  makeM(A,b);
  //print(A, "M");
  diagonalize(A);
  //print(A, "diag");
  substitute(A);
  //print(A, "subst");
  var x = extractX(A);
  //print(x, "x");
  return x;
}

// sample from: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GaussianElimination.html

A = [
  [9,3,4],
  [4,3,4],
  [1,1,1]
]

b = [7,8,3]

print(A, " A ");
print(b, " b ");

var x = solve(A, b);

print(x, " x ");

nice!

Hey, thanks for this. I've been stuck on this for a day now....

Thanks bro :)