You are given two arrays of integers a, b both with length n <= 10^5. For each 0 <= x <= n print the sum of a[i]*b[x-i] for all 0 <= i <= x.
It's obvious this can be done in quadratic time, but can we do any better?
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You are given two arrays of integers a, b both with length n <= 10^5. For each 0 <= x <= n print the sum of a[i]*b[x-i] for all 0 <= i <= x.
It's obvious this can be done in quadratic time, but can we do any better?
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If P(x) = a0 + a1*x + ... + an * x^n and Q(x) = b0 + b1*x + ... + bn*x^n then how can you obtain the requested sum? How can you compute it?
Let R(x) = P(x) * Q(x). Your sum is R(1).
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Thanks for the reply. Your strategy is quite interesting, however that only solves the problem if we want the sum over a[i]*b[x-i] for all x and for all i. The problem was to isolate each x and calculate the sum over a[i]*b[x-i] for all i for this value of x only, then move on to the next value of x. I'm very sorry if this wasn't clear.
Oh, I didn't get that. I think that the same strategy works in this case though.
It seems that the answer will always be equal to . (can't prove it, sorry)
Let p be the partial sum array of a. Then the answer is simply .