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I don't believe any condition checking is required. The elements required to perform the calculations are fixed and the index of a for-loop can be used to access the correct row values, notwithstanding using an array or not.
The required condition check is the FOR condition; the algorithm checks the index of the current iteration in the FOR loop and performs an appropriate action (skip data, use in calculation, increment counter, end loop execution).
condition checking for FOR loop conditions is trivial because of compilers optimizations. OP has additional condition checking that is not optimal. And you clearly implied that it was necessary.
Performing constant time operations n2 times (the number of iterations of the loop) is, by definition, not trivial when discussing running time. The act of saving data to an array could be considered trivial, because it's an additional O(1) time operation within the loop.
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I don't believe any condition checking is required. The elements required to perform the calculations are fixed and the index of a for-loop can be used to access the correct row values, notwithstanding using an array or not.
The required condition check is the FOR condition; the algorithm checks the index of the current iteration in the FOR loop and performs an appropriate action (skip data, use in calculation, increment counter, end loop execution).
condition checking for FOR loop conditions is trivial because of compilers optimizations. OP has additional condition checking that is not optimal. And you clearly implied that it was necessary.
Performing constant time operations n2 times (the number of iterations of the loop) is, by definition, not trivial when discussing running time. The act of saving data to an array could be considered trivial, because it's an additional O(1) time operation within the loop.