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Create GenerateSubsets #1581

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@imshreya2000 pls add tests and some documentation

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@CarlosZoft I have added the test and explanation. Kindly review.

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I think the files should be placed in Recursive/GenerateSubsets.js and Recursive/tests/GenerateSubsets.test.js respectively.

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function generateSubsets(nums) {
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  1. Call the parameter arr, not nums. The implementation doesn't need to make any assumptions about the values in arr.
  2. This should have a doc comment stating what this does (builds and returns a list of all subsets in lexicographic order). Also, consider using a generator rather than building a list; sometimes you want to iterate over all subsets without storing them all temporarily in memory (for example when solving hard optimization problems).

function generateSubsets(nums) {
const subsets = [];

function backtrack(start = 0, currentSubset = []) {
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I'm not sure I would call this backtracking; to me it's just ordinary recursion:

Backtracking is a class of algorithms for finding solutions to some computational problems, notably constraint satisfaction problems, that incrementally builds candidates to the solutions, and abandons a candidate as soon as it determines that the candidate cannot possibly be completed to a valid solution.

return subsets;
}

const inputSet = [1, 2, 3];
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This example should be removed from this file (or converted into a JSDoc example).

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// we define a generateSubsets function that uses backtracking to generate all possible subsets of a given set (array of numbers). The backtrack function is a recursive function that explores all possible subsets by considering or excluding each element.
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That's in the other file. Remove this comment from the test file.

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