Given two numbers represented as strings, return multiplication of the numbers as a string.
Note:
- The numbers can be arbitrarily large and are non-negative.
- Converting the input string to integer is NOT allowed.
- You should NOT use internal library such as BigInteger.
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public class Solution {
public String multiply(String num1, String num2) {
if (num1 == null || num2 == null) {
return null;
}
int len1 = num1.length(), len2 = num2.length();
int len3 = len1 + len2;
int i, j, product, carry;
int[] num3 = new int[len3];
for (i = len1 - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
carry = 0;
for (j = len2 - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
product = carry + num3[i + j + 1] +
Character.getNumericValue(num1.charAt(i)) *
Character.getNumericValue(num2.charAt(j));
num3[i + j + 1] = product % 10;
carry = product / 10;
}
num3[i + j + 1] = carry;
}
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
i = 0;
while (i < len3 - 1 && num3[i] == 0) {
i++;
}
while (i < len3) {
sb.append(num3[i++]);
}
return sb.toString();
}
}