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+//"use strict";
+// pagerank.js 0.0.1
+
+//Use a random surfer algorithm to determine the relative 
+//rank of nodes. The importance of each node is determined
+//by the number of incoming links as well as the importance 
+//of those incoming links. 
+
+// Expose
+// ----------
+
+//Expose our library to be called externally
+module.exports = function (nodeMatrix, linkProb, tolerance, callback, debug) {
+    if (!nodeMatrix || !linkProb || !tolerance || !callback) {
+        throw new Error("Provide 4 arguments: "+
+            "nodeMatrix, link probability, tolerance, callback");
+    }
+    //If debug is unset set it to false
+    if (!debug) { 
+        debug=false;
+    }
+    return new Pagerank(nodeMatrix, linkProb, tolerance, callback, debug);
+};
+
+// Initialize
+// ----------
+function Pagerank(nodeMatrix, linkProb, tolerance, callback, debug) {
+    //**OutgoingNodes:** represents an array of nodes. Each node in this 
+    //array contains an array of nodes to which the corresponding node has
+    //outgoing links.
+    this.outgoingNodes = nodeMatrix;
+
+    //console.log(this.outgoingNodes);
+    //**LinkProb:** a value ??
+    this.linkProb = linkProb;
+    //**Tolerance:** the point at which a solution is deemed optimal. 
+    //Higher values are more accurate, lower values are faster to computer. 
+    this.tolerance = tolerance;
+    this.callback = callback;
+
+    //Number of outgoing nodes
+    this.pageCount = Object.keys(this.outgoingNodes).length;
+    //console.log(this.pageCount);
+    //**Coeff:** coefficient for the likelihood that a page will be visited.
+    this.coeff = (1-linkProb)/this.pageCount;
+    
+    this.probabilityNodes = !(nodeMatrix instanceof Array) ? {} : [];
+    this.incomingNodes = !(nodeMatrix instanceof Array) ? {} : [];
+    //console.log(this.incomingNodes);
+    this.debug=debug;
+    
+    this.startRanking();
+}
+
+//Start ranking 
+// ----------
+Pagerank.prototype.startRanking = function () {
+
+    //we initialize all of our probabilities
+    var initialProbability = 1/this.pageCount, 
+        outgoingNodes = this.outgoingNodes, i, a, index;
+    
+    //rearray the graph and generate initial probability
+    for (i in outgoingNodes) {
+        this.probabilityNodes[i]=initialProbability;
+        for (a in outgoingNodes[i]) {
+            index = outgoingNodes[i][a];
+            if (!this.incomingNodes[index]) {
+                this.incomingNodes[index]=[]; 
+            }
+            this.incomingNodes[index].push(i);
+               // console.log(this.incomingNodes);
+
+        }
+    }
+
+    //if debug is set, print each iteration
+    if (this.debug) this.reportDebug(1)
+    
+    this.iterate(1);
+};
+
+//Log iteration to console 
+// ----------
+Pagerank.prototype.reportDebug = function (count) {
+    //console.log("____ITERATION "+count+"____");
+    //console.log("Pages: " + Object.keys(this.outgoingNodes).length);
+    //console.log("outgoing %j", this.outgoingNodes);
+    //console.log("incoming %j",this.incomingNodes);
+    //console.log("probability %j",this.probabilityNodes);
+};
+
+
+//Calculate new weights 
+// ----------
+Pagerank.prototype.iterate = function(count) {
+    var result = [];
+    var resultHash={};
+    var prob, ct, b, a, sum, res, max, min;
+
+    //For each node, we look at the incoming edges and 
+    //the weight of the node connected via each edge. 
+    //This weight is divided by the total number of 
+    //outgoing edges from each weighted node and summed to 
+    //determine the new weight of the original node.
+    for (b in this.probabilityNodes) {
+
+        sum = 0;
+        if( this.incomingNodes[b] ) {
+            for ( a=0; a<this.incomingNodes[b].length; a++) {
+                prob = this.probabilityNodes[ this.incomingNodes[b][a] ];
+                ct = this.outgoingNodes[ this.incomingNodes[b][a] ].length;
+                sum += (prob/ct) ;
+            }
+        }
+
+        //determine if the new probability is within tolerance.
+        res = this.coeff+this.linkProb*sum;
+        max = this.probabilityNodes[b]+this.tolerance;
+        min = this.probabilityNodes[b]-this.tolerance;   
+
+        //if the result has changed push that result
+        if (min <= res && res<= max) {
+            resultHash[b]=res;
+            result.push(res);
+        }
+    
+        //update the probability for node *b*
+        this.probabilityNodes[b]=res;
+        //console.log(this.probabilityNodes[b]);
+        //console.log(res);
+    }
+
+    //When we have all results (no weights are changing) we return via callback
+    if (result.length == this.pageCount) {
+        if( !(this.outgoingNodes instanceof Array)) {
+            return this.callback(null, resultHash);
+        }
+        return this.callback(null, result);
+    }
+    
+    //if debug is set, print each iteration
+    if (this.debug) {
+        this.reportDebug(count); 
+    }
+    
+    ++count;
+    return this.iterate(count);
+};