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I am trying to find the name of an algorithm for a game I am making. I am pretty sure it exists, but I have no idea what name it has.

Say I have a matrix like:

1 -1  0
0  0  1
0  1 -2


$$\begin{array}{|r|r|r|} \hline \hphantom{-}1 & -1 & 0 \\\hline 0 & 0 & 1 \\\hline 0 & 1 & -2 \\\hline \end{array}$$

I know that the sum of each element of the matrix is zero.

And an operation f$$f$$ which sums two elements of the matrix together and replaces both of them with this sum. In our example f( (a1,1) (a1,2) )$$f( a_{1,1} a_{1,2} )$$ (where wit (ar,x)$$a_{r,c}$$ is the element of the matrix at row r$$r$$ and column c$$c$$) would lead to

0  0  0
0  0  1
0  1 -2


$$\begin{array}{|r|r|r|} \hline \hphantom{-}0 & \hphantom{-}0 & 0 \\\hline 0 & 0 & 1 \\\hline 0 & 1 & -2 \\\hline \end{array}$$

The cost of this operation is the Manhattan distance between the two points, in this case 1$$1$$.

Now, I want to find the moves that:

• make each element of the matrix go to 0$$0$$
• minimize the total cost

Is there an algorhitmalgorithm (or a combination of them) that does that? Sorry for the laymen lingo, I am not a programmer myself!

I am trying to find the name of an algorithm for a game I am making. I am pretty sure it exists, but I have no idea what name it has.

Say I have a matrix like:

1 -1  0
0  0  1
0  1 -2


I know that the sum of each element of the matrix is zero.

And an operation f which sums two elements of the matrix together and replaces both of them with this sum. In our example f( (a1,1) (a1,2) ) (where wit (ar,x) the element of the matrix at row r and column c) would lead to

0  0  0
0  0  1
0  1 -2


The cost of this operation is the Manhattan distance between the two points, in this case 1.

Now, I want to find the moves that:

• make each element of the matrix go to 0
• minimize the total cost

Is there an algorhitm (or a combination of them) that does that? Sorry for the laymen lingo, I am not a programmer myself!

I am trying to find the name of an algorithm for a game I am making. I am pretty sure it exists, but I have no idea what name it has.

Say I have a matrix like:

$$\begin{array}{|r|r|r|} \hline \hphantom{-}1 & -1 & 0 \\\hline 0 & 0 & 1 \\\hline 0 & 1 & -2 \\\hline \end{array}$$

I know that the sum of each element of the matrix is zero.

And an operation $$f$$ which sums two elements of the matrix together and replaces both of them with this sum. In our example $$f( a_{1,1} a_{1,2} )$$ (where $$a_{r,c}$$ is the element of the matrix at row $$r$$ and column $$c$$) would lead to

$$\begin{array}{|r|r|r|} \hline \hphantom{-}0 & \hphantom{-}0 & 0 \\\hline 0 & 0 & 1 \\\hline 0 & 1 & -2 \\\hline \end{array}$$

The cost of this operation is the Manhattan distance between the two points, in this case $$1$$.

Now, I want to find the moves that:

• make each element of the matrix go to $$0$$
• minimize the total cost

Is there an algorithm (or a combination of them) that does that? Sorry for the laymen lingo, I am not a programmer myself!

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I am trying to find the name of an algorithm for a game I am making. I am pretty sure it exists, but I have no idea what name it has.

Say I have a matrix like:

1 -1  0
0  0  1
0  1 -2


I know that the sum of each element of the matrix is zero.

And an operation f which sums two elements of the matrix together and replaces both of them with this sum. In our example f( (a1,1) (a1,2) ) (where wit (ar,x) the element of the matrix at row r and column c) would lead to

0  0  0
0  0  1
0  1 -2


The cost of this operation is the Manhattan distance between the two points, in this case 1.

Now, I want to find the moves that:

• make each element of the matrix go to 0
• minimize the total cost

Is there an algorhitm (or a combination of them) that does that? Sorry for the laymen lingo, I am not a programmer myself!

I am trying to find the name of an algorithm for a game I am making. I am pretty sure it exists, but I have no idea what name it has.

Say I have a matrix like:

1 -1  0
0  0  1
0  1 -2


I know that the sum of each element of the matrix is zero.

And an operation f which sums two elements of the matrix together. In our example f( (a1,1) (a1,2) ) would lead to

0  0  0
0  0  1
0  1 -2


The cost of this operation is the Manhattan distance between the two points, in this case 1.

Now, I want to find the moves that:

• make each element of the matrix go to 0
• minimize the total cost

Is there an algorhitm (or a combination of them) that does that? Sorry for the laymen lingo, I am not a programmer myself!

I am trying to find the name of an algorithm for a game I am making. I am pretty sure it exists, but I have no idea what name it has.

Say I have a matrix like:

1 -1  0
0  0  1
0  1 -2


I know that the sum of each element of the matrix is zero.

And an operation f which sums two elements of the matrix together and replaces both of them with this sum. In our example f( (a1,1) (a1,2) ) (where wit (ar,x) the element of the matrix at row r and column c) would lead to

0  0  0
0  0  1
0  1 -2


The cost of this operation is the Manhattan distance between the two points, in this case 1.

Now, I want to find the moves that:

• make each element of the matrix go to 0
• minimize the total cost

Is there an algorhitm (or a combination of them) that does that? Sorry for the laymen lingo, I am not a programmer myself!

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# Minimize Manhattan distance travel algorithm

I am trying to find the name of an algorithm for a game I am making. I am pretty sure it exists, but I have no idea what name it has.

Say I have a matrix like:

1 -1  0
0  0  1
0  1 -2


I know that the sum of each element of the matrix is zero.

And an operation f which sums two elements of the matrix together. In our example f( (a1,1) (a1,2) ) would lead to

0  0  0
0  0  1
0  1 -2


The cost of this operation is the Manhattan distance between the two points, in this case 1.

Now, I want to find the moves that:

• make each element of the matrix go to 0
• minimize the total cost

Is there an algorhitm (or a combination of them) that does that? Sorry for the laymen lingo, I am not a programmer myself!