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The isDisjointFrom()
method of Set
instances takes a set and returns a boolean indicating if this set has no elements in common with the given set.
true
if this set has no elements in common with the other
set, and false
otherwise.
Two sets are disjoint if they have no elements in common. In mathematical notation:
A is disjoint from B â A â© B = â A\text{ is disjoint from }B \Leftrightarrow A\cap B = \emptyAnd using Venn diagram:
isDisjointFrom()
accepts set-like objects as the other
parameter. It requires this
to be an actual Set
instance, because it directly retrieves the underlying data stored in this
without invoking any user code. Then, its behavior depends on the sizes of this
and other
:
this
than other.size
, then it iterates over other
by calling its keys()
method, and if any element in other
is present in this
, it returns false
(and closes the keys()
iterator by calling its return()
method). Otherwise, it returns true
.this
, and returns false
if any element e
in this
causes other.has(e)
to return a truthy value. Otherwise, it returns true
.Because of this implementation, the efficiency of isDisjointFrom()
mostly depends on the size of the smaller set between this
and other
(assuming sets can be accessed in sublinear time).
The set of perfect squares (<20) is disjoint from the set of prime numbers (<20), because a perfect square is by definition decomposable into the product of two integers, while 1 is also not considered a prime number:
const primes = new Set([2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19]);
const squares = new Set([1, 4, 9, 16]);
console.log(primes.isDisjointFrom(squares)); // true
The set of perfect squares (<20) is not disjoint from the set of composite numbers (<20), because all non-1 perfect squares are by definition composite numbers:
const composites = new Set([4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18]);
const squares = new Set([1, 4, 9, 16]);
console.log(composites.isDisjointFrom(squares)); // false
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