Too many 'if' statements?

Question

The following code does work how I need it to, but it\'s ugly, excessive or a number of other things. I\'ve looked at formulas and attempted to write a few solutions, but I

Answer 1

I personally like to cascade ternary operators:

int result = condition1
    ? result1
    : condition2
    ? result2
    : condition3
    ? result3
    : resultElse;

But in your case, you can use:

final int[] result = new int[/*16*/] {
    0, 0, 1, 2,
    0, 0, 2, 1,
    2, 1, 3, 3,
    1, 2, 3, 3
};

public int fightMath(int one, int two) {
    return result[one*4 + two];
}

Or, you can notice a pattern in bits:

one   two   result

section 1: higher bits are equals =>
both result bits are equals to that higher bits

00    00    00
00    01    00
01    00    00
01    01    00
10    10    11
10    11    11
11    10    11
11    11    11

section 2: higher bits are different =>
lower result bit is inverse of lower bit of 'two'
higher result bit is lower bit of 'two'

00    10    01
00    11    10
01    10    10
01    11    01
10    00    10
10    01    01
11    00    01
11    01    10

So you can use magic:

int fightMath(int one, int two) {
    int b1 = one & 2, b2 = two & 2;
    if (b1 == b2)
        return b1 | (b1 >> 1);

    b1 = two & 1;

    return (b1 << 1) | (~b1);
}