shuffle card deck issues in language agnostic [closed]

Answer 1

First question:

int countZeroes (int[] vec) {
int ret = 0;
foreach(int i in vec) if (i == 0) ret++;

return ret;
}

int[] mysticCalc(int[] values, int[] indexes) {
    int zeroes = countZeroes(values); 
    int[] retval = new int[values.length];
    int product = 1;

    if (zeroes >= 2) { // 2 or more zeroes, all results will be 0
        for (int i = 0; i > values.length; i++) {
            retval[i] = 0;      
        }
        return retval;
    }
    foreach (int i in values) {
        if (i != 0) product *= i; // we have at most 1 zero, dont include in product;
    }
    int indexcounter = 0;
    foreach(int idx in indexes) {
        if (zeroes == 1 && values[idx] != 0) {  // One zero on other index. Our value will be 0
            retval[indexcounter] = 0;
        }
        else if (zeroes == 1) { // One zero on this index. result is product
            retval[indexcounter] = product;
        }
        else { // No zeros. Return product/value at index
            retval[indexcounter] = product / values[idx];
        }
        indexcouter++;
    }   
    return retval;
}

Worst case this program will step through 3 vectors once.