In addition to these assumptions, you have also assumed that numbers are greater than 1 else * will lower the result.
Regards, Akash Agrawal http://tech-queries.blogspot.com/ On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Algoose chase <harishp...@gmail.com>wrote: > For this specific case since only 2 operators are used : + , * and we > know that * is the operator that maximizes the value(provided both the > operands are not equal to one / none of the operand is zero and also given > that operands are +ve ). > Doing * operation as late as possible should suffice right ? > > For Eg: Do all additions in the first pass and do all multiplications in > 2nd pass. > > is there be any case where the above mentioned logic fails ? > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Amir hossein Shahriari < > amir.hossein.shahri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> you can use an algorithm similar to matrix chain multiplication i.e. if >> dp[i][j] is the maximum value that you can get with the numbers v_i to v_j >> and in order to maximize it find k that maximizes ( dp[i][k] op_k dp[k][j] >> ) >> v_i is the ith value and op_k is the kth operator >> obviously if i==j : dp[i][j] = v_i >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Algorithm Geeks" group. >> To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<algogeeks%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<algogeeks%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
