Talk:TADM2E 3.28

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I think this can be done in a single loop essentially taking two passes at once. Here is a Python snippet.

# O( n) - len( input_values)
length = len( input_values)		# the length of the input values
answers = [1]*length			# output values
frontIndex = 0				# the index at which we have calculated the product of all preceding indexes
frontProduct = 1			# the product of values preceding the front index
backProduct = 1				# the product of values following the back index
limit = length-1
backIndex = limit			# the index at which we have calculated the product of all following values
while( frontIndex < limit):
    frontProduct *= input_values[ frontIndex]
    backProduct *= input_values[ backIndex]
    frontIndex += 1
    answers[ frontIndex] *= frontProduct
    backIndex -= 1
    answers[ backIndex] *= backProduct


Note by murrayc:

I think this should be the main solution, and I think this helps to visualise what is happening:

--Murrayc2 (talk) 07:29, 8 November 2015 (EST)
a b c d e
Forwards:
a
a ab
a ab abc
a ab abc abcd
Backwards:
a ab (abc) (e) abcd
a (ab) (ed) (abc) (e) abcd
(a) (edc) (ab) (ed) (abc) (e) abcd
(edcb) (a) (edc) (ab) (ed) (abc) (e) abcd