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Mindbending Product

Last Updated: 10 Sep, 2020
Difficulty: Easy

PROBLEM STATEMENT

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You are given an array ‘ARR’ of size N. You have to construct a Product Array ‘P’ of the same size such that P[i] is equal to the product of all the elements of ARR except ARR[i]. The constraint is that you are not allowed to use the division operator.

For Example:

For an array {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}:
The required product array generated from the given array is {120, 60, 40, 30, 24 }

This can be generated in the following manner:

For generating 120 we have 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 i.e. the product of other array elements except 1.
For generating 60 we have 1 * 3 * 4 * 5  i.e. the product of other array elements except 2.
For generating 40 we have 1 * 2 * 4 * 5  i.e. the product of other array elements except 3.
For generating 30 we have 1 * 2 * 3 * 5  i.e. the product of other array elements except 4.
For generating 24 we have 1 * 2 * 3 * 4  i.e. the product of other array elements except 5.
Input format:
The first line contains an Integer 'T' which denotes the number of test cases/queries to be run. 
Then the test cases follow. 

The first line of input for each test case/query contains an integer N representing the size of the array.

The second line of input for each test case/query contains N space-separated integers representing the elements of the array.
Output Format:
For each test case, print 'N' single space-separated integers denoting elements of the product array P.

Output for every test case will be printed in a separate line.
Note:
1. You do not need to print anything, it has already been taken care of. Just implement the function.
2. The value of P[i] will fit into a 64-bit data type.
Constraints:
1 <= T <= 50
1 <= N <= 10
1 <= ARR [i] <= 20

Time Limit: 1 sec

Approach 1

  • Create an array ‘P’ of size N.
  • If n = 1 then initialize P[0]=0 and return.
  • Run a loop from i = 0 to i = N-1, and initialize a variable currentProduct = 1 and run another nested loop from j = 0 to j = N-1.
    • If i == j skip this element
    • Otherwise CURRENT_PRODUCT *= ARR[j]
  • Now assign the CURRENT_PRODUCT at P[i]
    • P[i] = CURRENT_PRODUCT
  • Now P array has the required answer, therefore, return the P array.
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