# What's the point?

Write a program or function that takes in two integers that represent the X and Y coordinates of a point on a Cartesian plane.

The input may come in any reasonable format as long as the X value comes before the Y. For example, 1 -2, (1,-2), [1, -2], or 1\n-2 would all be fine for X = 1, Y = -2.

Print or return a single character string (followed by an optional trailing newline) that describes the location of the point in the plane:

• 1 if the point is in quadrant I
• 2 if the point is in quadrant II
• 3 if the point is in quadrant III
• 4 if the point is in quadrant IV
• X if the point is on the x-axis (lowercase x is not allowed)
• Y if the point is on the y-axis (lowercase y is not allowed)
• O if the point is on the origin (that's a capital letter "oh", not zero)

The shortest code in bytes wins. Tiebreaker goes to the higher voted answer.

## Test Cases

(1,-2) -> 4
(30,56) -> 1
(-2,1) -> 2
(-89,-729) -> 3
(-89,0) -> X
(0,400) -> Y
(0,0) -> O
(0,1) -> Y
(0,-1) -> Y
(1,0) -> X
(-1,0) -> X
(1,1) -> 1
(1,-1) -> 4
(-1,1) -> 2
(-1,-1) -> 3

• So for the purposes of this challenge, X and Y axis are in no quadrant? – Rɪᴋᴇʀ Jan 29 '16 at 22:02
• @RikerW Right. Otherwise the point (0, 9) could be said to be quadrant I or II. – Calvin's Hobbies Jan 29 '16 at 22:05
• Is a complex number (or a string representation of it, like "30+56i") a valid input format? – Level River St Jan 29 '16 at 23:21
• @steveverrill Yes – Calvin's Hobbies Jan 29 '16 at 23:50
• Can the input be in the form of a complex number? (e.g. 1+2j) – Digital Trauma Jan 30 '16 at 19:47

# Jelly, 14 bytes

Ṡḅ3ị“Y4X13X2YO


Try it online!

### How it works

Ṡḅ3ị“Y4X13X2YO    Main link. Input: [x, y]

Ṡ                 Apply the sign function to both coordinates.
ḅ3               Convert the resulting pair from base 3 to integer.
Because of how base conversion is implemented in Jelly, this maps
[a, b] to (3a + b), even if a and b aren't valid ternary digits.
Therefore:
[0, 1]   ->  1
[1, -1]  ->  2
[1, 0]   ->  3
[1, 1]   ->  4
[-1, -1] -> -4
[-1, 0]  -> -3
[-1, 1]  -> -2
[0, -1]  -> -1
[0, 0]   ->  0
ị“Y4X13X2YO    Retrieve the character at that index from the string.
Indexing is 1-based and modular in Jelly, so 1ị retrieves the
first character, -1ị the penultimate, and 0ị the last.

• Joining the Jelly from phone club. – Dennis Jan 29 '16 at 22:14
• Aaaaaand Jelly wins once again... – ETHproductions Jan 29 '16 at 22:16
• Very good approach! – Luis Mendo Jan 29 '16 at 23:40

## Ruby, 35 bytes

->x,y{%w[OY X14 X23][x<=>0][y<=>0]}


Leveraging the "spaceship" (<=>) operator.

x <=> 0 will return

• 0 if x == 0
• 1 if x > 0
• -1 if x < 0

Hence,

• if x == 0, we return 'OY'[y<=>0]. This is

• O if y == 0 (string indexing at 0)

• Y if y != 0 (this is true because both 1 and -1 will result in Y when indexing on this string, as -1 refers to the last character in the string, which also happens to be the one at index 1)

• if x > 0, we return 'X14'[y<=>0]. This is X if y == 0, 1 if y > 0, and 4 if y < 0 (see explanation above).

• if x < 0, we return 'X23'[y<=>0].

# JavaScript, 44 bytes

(x,y)=>x?y?x>0?y>0?1:4:y>0?2:3:'X':y?'Y':'O'


f=(x,y)=>x?
y?
x>0?
y>0?1
:4
:y>0?2:3
:'X'
:y?'Y':'O'

document.body.innerHTML = '<pre>' +
'f(1,-2) -> ' + f(1,-2) + '<br>' +
'f(30,56) -> ' + f(30,56) + '<br>' +
'f(-2,1) -> ' + f(-2,1) + '<br>' +
'f(-89,-729) -> ' + f(-89,-729) + '<br>' +
'f(-89,0) -> ' + f(-89,0) + '<br>' +
'f(0,400) -> ' + f(0,400) + '<br>' +
'f(0,0) -> ' + f(0,0) + '<br>' +
'f(0,1) -> ' + f(0,1) + '<br>' +
'f(0,-1) -> ' + f(0,-1) + '<br>' +
'f(1,0) -> ' + f(1,0) + '<br>' +
'f(-1,0) -> ' + f(-1,0) + '<br>' +
'f(1,1) -> ' + f(1,1) + '<br>' +
'f(1,-1) -> ' + f(1,-1) + '<br>' +
'f(-1,1) -> ' + f(-1,1) + '<br>' +
'f(-1,-1) -> ' + f(-1,-1) + '<br>' +
'</pre>';

• My eyes hurt, that's one long chain of ternary operators – andlrc Jan 29 '16 at 23:10
• afaik its allowed to write an anonymous function (s/^f=//) – andlrc Jan 29 '16 at 23:13

## ES6, 43 bytes

(x,y)=>"OYYX32X41"[3*!!x+3*(x>0)+!!y+(y>0)]


A whole byte shorter than all of those ternaries!

# Japt, 30 22 bytes

"3Y2XOX4Y1"g4+3*Ug +Vg


Inspired by @Dennis' Jelly answer before he added an explanation. Test it online!

Fun fact: this would be two bytes shorter if I had added support for negative numbers in the g function for strings.

Another attempt, closer to the Jelly one (23 bytes):

"3Y2XOX4Y1"gNmg m+1 ¬n3


Sadly, incrementing a list costs 4 bytes...

# MATL, 22 bytes

'3X2YOY4X1'iZSQI1h*sQ)


This uses current release (10.2.1) of the language/compiler.

Try it online!

### Explanation

This shamelessly borrows the great approach in Dennis' answer.

'3X2YOY4X1'     % literal string. Will be indexed into to produce result
i               % input array of two numbers
ZS              % sign of each number in that array. Gives -1, 0 or 1
Q               % add 1 to produce 0, 1 or 2
I1h             % array [3 1]
*s              % multiply both arrays element-wise and compute sum
Q               % add 1. Gives a value from 1 to 9
)               % index into string. Display


# Pyth, 18 bytes

@"OY4X13X2Y"i._RQ3


Explanation:

                   - Autoassign Q = eval(input())
._RQ  - map(cmp, Q)
i    3 - convert to base 3
@"OY4X13X2Y"       - "OY4X13X2Y"[^] (A lookup table)


Try it here.

Or the whole test suite

## Python 2, 75 bytes

lambda x,y,b=bool:[['OX','YO'][b(y)][b(x)],[[1,2],[4,3]][y<0][x<0]][b(x*y)]


Pretty straightforward.

# Mathematica 81 bytes

Switch[Sign@#,{1,-1},4,{1,1},1,{-1,1},2,{-1,-1},3,{0,0},"O",{_,0},"X",{0,_},"Y"]&


%/@{{1, -2}, {30, 56}, {-2, 1}, {-89, -729}, {-89, -0}, {0, 400}, {0, 0},{0, 1}, {0, -1}, {1, 0}, {-1, 0}, {1, 1}, {1, -1}, {-1, 1}, {-1, -1}}


{4, 1, 2, 3, "X", "Y", "O", "Y", "Y", "X", "X", 1, 4, 2, 3}

# Retina, 52

This is a simple substitution-based method:

^0 0
O
^0.*
Y
.* 0
X
-.*-.*
3
^-.*
2
.*-.*
4
.* .*
1


Try it online. The extra m  at the start of some lines is only needed to test multiple inputs in one go, so are not counted in the score.

Previously I tried this more interesting approach, but its quite a bit longer (about 65 without the m modifiers):

[1-9]\d*
1
-1
2
(.) (.)
$1$*3$2$*1
3
111
m^(.)*#1
TdOYYX14X23

• substitute all non-zero numbers to 1, leaving - signs in place
• Substitute -1 with 2
• Convert 1st and 2nd numbers unary with 3 and 1 respectively as the unary digits . This effectively gives 2 base3 digits, expressed in unary
• Convert to 3s to 111. This effectively gives the a single unary number that corresponds to each of the quadrants, axes and origin
• Convert the unary to one decimal digit
• Transpose the decimal digit to the appropriate output char.
• I don't think the X stage needs \$ since there won't be leading zeroes in the input. – Martin Ender Jan 30 '16 at 10:10
• The more interesting approach can be shortened to at least 40 bytes. Now I will look at it tomorrow some more. – randomra Jan 31 '16 at 0:28
• For batch run you need some tweaking. – randomra Jan 31 '16 at 0:28

# Octave, 34 bytes

@(p)['3X2YOY4X1'](sign(p)*[3;1]+5)


The old base-3 trick through vector multiplication (although I had to add 5 to account for 1-based array indices) plus some Octave indexing magic.

Input is a vector of the form [1, -2] (with or without the comma), so when assigned to a variable w:

>> w([1 -2])
ans = 4


Here it is on ideone.

• Ideone seems to be working again. Did you do anything special to use it? – Luis Mendo Feb 1 '16 at 20:35
• @LuisMendo This one uses an anonymous function. Named functions are still borked for me. :( – beaker Feb 1 '16 at 21:17
• Aah, you are right. It was named functions that were not working. So still the same :-/ – Luis Mendo Feb 1 '16 at 21:54

# Pyth, 24

Too long, but perhaps an interesting approach:

?Q?sQ?eQh%/yPQ.n04\X\Y\O


The input must be specified as a complex number, e.g. 1-2j. Basically a nested ternary to test:

• if input is zero - output O
• else if real part is zero - output Y
• else if imaginary part is zero - output X
• else calculate the complex phase, multiply by 2, integer divide by π, then mod and add to give the appropriate quadrant number.

Try it online.

# Java 8, 64 bytes

this is a lambda expression for a BiFunction<Integer,Integer,String>.

(x,y)->"OYYX14X23".charAt(3*(x>0?1:x<0?2:0)+(y>0?1:y<0?2:0))+"";


3 bytes could be saved by returning a Character instead of a String but i'm not completely sure if autoboxing will play nicely with the lambda.

• Oh neat, this answer using the PCCG Handicap System scores better (1.5598) than Dennis's Jelly answer (1.5929). – Draco18s no longer trusts SE Feb 10 '16 at 17:59
• that's quite interesting. thanks for pointing that out – Jack Ammo Feb 10 '16 at 18:49
• Ran the values for a few entries on this one out of curiosity (all scores were between 1.5 and 2, for reference). – Draco18s no longer trusts SE Feb 10 '16 at 18:51