# Find all diagonal counts in only one direction [closed]

If I need to get the number of diagonal squares in all directions:

I do the following formula 2 N − 2 − |x − y| − |x + y − N − 1|

The above example has 13 and that's what the formula gives.

Now, what if you wanted to get the diagonal squares, but only in one direction?

The top right has 4 squares, the top left has 3, the bottom left has 3 and the bottom right has 3.

Assume I have that program to compute all legal diagonals for the Queen, and as I demonstrated above I can get all diagonals by one step using above formula, written like :

int positiveDiagonal = Math.abs(r_q - c_q);
int negativeDiagonal = Math.abs(r_q + c_q - n - 1);
int totalDiagonal = 2 * n - 2 - positiveDiagonal - negativeDiagonal;


So, assume there is a soldier on position (5,5), that's make the Queen can't move to others diagonals in the same direction with total 4 count.

Sample Input - 1:

• Board length = 8
• Queen on position (4, 4)
• There is no soldiers.

• Explanation :

• Because there is no pieces (soldiers), we just get all diagonals we calculated using our formula.

Output - 1: 13

Sample Input - 2:

• Board length = 8
• Queen on position (4, 4)
• There is a soldiers on point (5, 3)

• Explanation :

• Because there is a piece or whatever, on point (5, 3), The Queen can't go to (5, 3), (6, 2) and (7, 1).

Output - 2: The total diagonals we got from formula is 13 and by calculating the soldier diagonals [The steps that queen can't go through], the result would be 10.

Sample Input - 3:

• Board length = 5
• Queen on position (5, 5)
• There is a soldiers on point (1, 1)

• Explanation :

• Because there is a piece (soldier), on point (1, 1), The Queen can't go to that square.

Output - 3: By subtracting this square from total diagonals which equal 4 it's results 3

Sample Input - 4:

• Board length = 5
• Queen on position (3, 3)
• Soldiers on positions (5, 5) , (2, 1), and (4, 4)

• Explanation :

• Because there is a piece (soldier), on point (5, 5) and (4, 4), The Queen can't go to these squares.

Output - 4 = 6

## closed as unclear what you're asking by Sriotchilism O'Zaic, NoOneIsHere, Xcali, Jo King, Embodiment of IgnoranceMar 30 at 17:36

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• Provide a standard way for input and output - input could be position of queen and which diagonal, output could be length of diagonal, just a suggestion. But you will need to provide sample inputs and outputs. Do that, and I can almost promise you someone will figure it out. – Stephen Mar 18 at 12:55
• Can there ever be more than one "soldier" on the board? – Shaggy Mar 18 at 13:14
• What is a 'soldier'? Does it matter? It seems to just be a piece blocking the way. – Rɪᴋᴇʀ Mar 18 at 14:24
• You say "There is may a way to calculate that via loops, but I really prefer formulas as it's saving much time and efforts", but with code-golf you don't get to determine what method people use. Maybe that part should be removed or rephrased, as I'm not really sure what it adds to the question. – mbomb007 Mar 18 at 19:43
• Err, shouldn't you be using the bishop as the example piece, rather than the queen? – Jo King Mar 19 at 4:55

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