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.
假设有:
4 5 6 7 2
* 5 4
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1 8 2 6 8 8 (4与45672相乘)
2 2 8 3 6 0 ( 5与45672相乘)
最后将相乘后的结果相加,可得 2466288。
所以,我们事先一个1位数与多位数的简单乘法和大数加法就可以实现大数乘法的。
在这里,介绍一个更加简单容易实现的方法。
从右到左,对每个数字pair做乘法,然后将相乘后的结果加在一起。
num1 [ i ] 和 num2 [ j ] 的相乘结果将会被放置在 新数组的 i + j 位 (放置进位信息) 和 i + j + 1位。
运行时间:
代码:
public class MultiplyStrings {
public String multiply(String num1, String num2) {
int m = num1.length(), n = num2.length();
int[] pos = new int[m + n];
for (int j = n - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
for (int i = m - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
int mul = (num1.charAt(i) - '0') * (num2.charAt(j) - '0');
int p1 = i + j, p2 = i + j + 1;
int sum = mul + pos[p2];
pos[p1] += sum / 10;//save as carry
pos[p2] = sum % 10;
}
}
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int p : pos) {
if (p != 0 || sb.length() != 0) {
sb.append(p);
}
}
return sb.length() == 0 ? "0" : sb.toString();
}
}