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Product of array execept self

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Product of Array Except Self Given an integer array nums, return an array answer such that answer[i] is equal to the product of all the elements of nums except nums[i]. The product of any prefix or suffix of nums is guaranteed to fit in a 32-bit integer. You must write an algorithm that runs in O(n) time and without using the division operation.

Algorithm :

  1. N2 solution would be to pick an element and do a product at each input which falls in two for loops
  2. make two arrays left and right, keep updating the values, fill the left array first for each element for n-1 elememts, same for right
  3. Final answer is product of i at left and right
   private int [] productOfArrayExceptSelf(int [] input) {
        int len = input.length;

        int left [] = new int[input.length];
        int right [] = new int[input.length];
        int answer [] = new int[input.length];

        left[0] = 1;
        for (int i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
            left[i] = left[i-1] * input[i-1];
        }

        right[len-1] = 1;
        for (int i = len-2 ; i >= 0; i++) {
            right[i] = right[i+1] * input[i+1];
        }
        for (int i =0; i < input.length; i++){
             answer[i] = left[i] * right[i];
        }
        return answer;
    }