So the problem is:

Write a program to find the nth super ugly number.

Super ugly numbers are positive numbers whose all prime factors are in the given prime list primes of size k. For example, [1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 13, 14, 16, 19, 26, 28, 32] is the sequence of the first 12 super ugly numbers given primes = [2, 7, 13, 19] of size 4.

So my algorithm basically finds all possible factors using the pattern they follow, pushes them to an array, sorts that array and then returns the nth value in the array. It accurately calculates all of them, however, is too slow with high nth values.

My question is what the proper way to do this is as I'm sure there has to be a more straightforward solution. I'm mostly curious about the theory behind finding it and if there's some kind of closed formula for this.

```js
 var nthSuperUglyNumber = function(n, primes) {
     xprimes = primes;
     var uglies = [1];
     uglies = getUglyNumbers(n, primes, uglies);
     // return uglies[n-1];
     return uglies[n - 1];
 };

 //                     3                         4
 //1, 2,3,5, || 4,6,10, 9,15, 25, || 8,12,20,18,30,50, 27,45,75, 125 ||
 //   3,2,1     6,3,1,               10,4,1
 //              1            1              1
 //1, 2,3 || 4,6, 9, || 8,12,18, 27 || 16,24,36,54, 81
 //   2,1    3,1        4,1            5,1
 //
 //1, 2,3,5,7 || 4,6,10,14 9,15,21 25,35, 49 ||
 //   4,3,2,1 || 10,6,3,1

 var getUglyNumbers = function(n, primes, uglies) {
     if (n == 1) {
         return uglies;
     }
     var incrFactor = [];

     var j = 0;
     // Initial factor and uglies setup
     for (; j < primes.length; j += 1) {
         incrFactor[j] = primes.length - j;
         uglies.push(primes[j]);
     }

     //recrusive algo
     uglies = calcUglies(n, uglies, incrFactor);
     uglies.sort(function(a, b) {
     return a - b;
     });
     return uglies;
 };

 var calcUglies = function(n, uglies, incrFactor) {
     if (uglies.length >= 5 * n) return uglies;
     var currlength = uglies.length;
     var j = 0;
     for (j = 0; j < xprimes.length; j += 1) {
         var i = 0;
         var start = currlength - incrFactor[j];
         for (i = start; i < currlength; i += 1) {
             uglies.push(xprimes[j] * uglies[i]);
         }
     }
     // Upgrades the factors to level 2
     for (j = 1; j < xprimes.length; j += 1) {
         incrFactor[xprimes.length - 1 - j] = incrFactor[xprimes.length - j] + incrFactor[xprimes.length - 1 - j];
     }

     return calcUglies(n, uglies, incrFactor);
 };

```