/*
 * Copyright (C) 2014 Pedro Vicente Gómez Sánchez.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package com.github.pedrovgs.problem39;

/**
 * Given an array of elements, write a method to multiply every value for the rest of elements and
 * return a new array with this values. Can you resolve this problem without use "/" operator?
 */
public class MultiplyArrayElements {
}

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2014 Pedro Vicente Gómez Sánchez.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package com.github.pedrovgs.problem39;

/**
 * Given an array of elements, write a method to multiply every value for the rest of elements and
 * return a new array with this values. Can you resolve this problem without use "/" operator?
 */
public class MultiplyArrayElements {

  /**
   * Iterative solution to solve this problem. The complexity order of this algorithm is O(N) time
   * and space terms where N is the number of elements in the input array.
   */
  public int[] multiply(int[] input) {
    if (input == null) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("You can't pass a null array as input.");
    }
    if (input.length == 0) {
      return input;
    }

    int[] front = new int[input.length];
    int[] rear = new int[input.length];
    int[] output = new int[input.length];

    front[0] = 1;
    rear[input.length - 1] = 1;
    for (int i = 1; i < input.length; i++) {
      front[i] = front[i - 1] * input[i - 1];
    }
    for (int i = input.length - 2; i >= 0; i--) {
      rear[i] = rear[i + 1] * input[i + 1];
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
      output[i] = front[i] * rear[i];
    }
    return output;
  }
}

Add iterative solution to problem 39
Add iterative solution to problem 39
