Find the contiguous subarray within an array (containing at least one number) which has the largest product.
For example, given the array [2,3,-2,4]
,
the contiguous subarray [2,3]
has the largest product = 6
.
求连续子序列最大乘积,类似于求连续子序列最大和,但是乘法还涉及到符号的问题,比较方便的方法是同时维护到当前元素的最大乘积和最小乘积。
1 class Solution { 2 public: 3 int maxProduct(int A[], int n) { 4 5 int max_ending_here = A[0]; 6 int min_ending_here = A[0]; 7 8 int max_so_far = A[0]; 9 10 for (int i = 1; i < n; ++i) { 11 int p_max = A[i] * max_ending_here; 12 int p_min = A[i] * min_ending_here; 13 14 max_ending_here = max(A[i], max(p_max, p_min)); 15 min_ending_here = min(A[i], min(p_max, p_min)); 16 17 max_so_far = max(max_so_far, max_ending_here); 18 } 19 20 return max_so_far; 21 } 22 };