Saturday, December 18, 2010

Maximize and expression with no parenthesis

Given an expression E of n numbers with *, + operations and no precedence among the operators, identify the set of parenthesis which maximize the results for E.
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  1. This one is straightforward.. unless you allow a number N to be negative. Then you need to make two independent tables and construct them simultaneously since a negative multiplier makes a minimum value suddenly a potential maximum.

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