How to approach the broken calculator problem?Can you explain step by step?
Broken calculator problem
You have to find the factorial of very large numbers.
You can’t store the factorials of 100, 200… for that you can use array which can store upto 10^6 size.
Basic idea would be:
- Create an array ‘res[]’ of MAX size where MAX is number of maximum digits in output.
- Initialize value stored in ‘res[]’ as 1 and initialize ‘res_size’ (size of ‘res[]’) as 1.
- Do following for all numbers from x = 2 to n.
……a) Multiply x with res[] and update res[] and res_size to store the multiplication result.
multiply(res[], x)
- Initialize carry as 0.
- Do following for i = 0 to res_size – 1
….a) Find value of res[i] * x + carry. Let this value be prod.
….b) Update res[i] by storing last digit of prod in it.
….c) Update carry by storing remaining digits in carry. - Put all digits of carry in res[] and increase res_size by number of digits in carry.
What if carry goes out of range