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Abbreviating the Product of a Range

You are given two positive integers left and right with left <= right. Calculate the product of all integers in the inclusive range [left, right].

Since the product may be very large, you will abbreviate it following these steps:

  1. Count all trailing zeros in the product and remove them. Let us denote this count as C.
    • For example, there are 3 trailing zeros in 1000, and there are 0 trailing zeros in 546.
  2. Denote the remaining number of digits in the product as d. If d > 10, then express the product as <pre>...<suf> where <pre> denotes the first 5 digits of the product, and <suf> denotes the last 5 digits of the product after removing all trailing zeros. If d <= 10, we keep it unchanged.
    • For example, we express 1234567654321 as 12345...54321, but 1234567 is represented as 1234567.
  3. Finally, represent the product as a string "<pre>...<suf>eC".
    • For example, 12345678987600000 will be represented as "12345...89876e5".

Return a string denoting the abbreviated product of all integers in the inclusive range [left, right].

 

Example 1:

Input: left = 1, right = 4
Output: "24e0"
Explanation: The product is 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 = 24.
There are no trailing zeros, so 24 remains the same. The abbreviation will end with "e0".
Since the number of digits is 2, which is less than 10, we do not have to abbreviate it further.
Thus, the final representation is "24e0".

Example 2:

Input: left = 2, right = 11
Output: "399168e2"
Explanation: The product is 39916800.
There are 2 trailing zeros, which we remove to get 399168. The abbreviation will end with "e2".
The number of digits after removing the trailing zeros is 6, so we do not abbreviate it further.
Hence, the abbreviated product is "399168e2".

Example 3:

Input: left = 371, right = 375
Output: "7219856259e3"
Explanation: The product is 7219856259000.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= left <= right <= 104

Solution Explanation:

The problem asks to calculate the product of a range of numbers, abbreviate it by removing trailing zeros and shortening long numbers, and finally represent it as a string in a specific format.

The solution involves several steps:

  1. Counting Trailing Zeros: The number of trailing zeros in the product is determined by the number of times 10 is a factor. Since 10 = 2 * 5, we count the number of factors of 2 and 5 in the product. The minimum of these counts represents the number of trailing zeros (c).

  2. Calculating the Product: The product is calculated while simultaneously removing trailing zeros. We iterate through the numbers in the range, and for each number, we divide out factors of 2 and 5 based on the count of trailing zeros c calculated in step 1. This ensures the final product doesn't contain these trailing zeros.

  3. Handling Large Numbers: If the product is too large (more than 10 digits after removing trailing zeros), we abbreviate it to show the first 5 digits and the last 5 digits.

  4. Constructing the Result String: The result string is built in the format <pre>...<suf>eC, where <pre> represents the first 5 digits, <suf> represents the last 5 digits (after removing trailing zeros), and C is the count of trailing zeros.

Time Complexity Analysis:

The solution iterates through the range [left, right] once to count trailing zeros and once to compute the abbreviated product. The loop has a linear time complexity of O(right - left). The other operations (removing trailing zeros, abbreviating if needed, constructing the output string) take constant time relative to the input size. Therefore, the overall time complexity is O(n), where n = (right - left + 1).

Space Complexity Analysis:

The space used depends on the length of the final string representation of the product. In the worst case, this is a constant amount of space (the space needed to store the first 5 digits, the last 5 digits, the '...', and the exponent 'eC'). Therefore, the space complexity is O(1).

Code Implementation (Python):

The Python code below implements the solution efficiently:

import numpy
 
 
class Solution:
    def abbreviateProduct(self, left: int, right: int) -> str:
        cnt2 = cnt5 = 0
        z = numpy.float128(0) # Use numpy.float128 for higher precision
        for x in range(left, right + 1):
            z += numpy.log10(x)
            while x % 2 == 0:
                x //= 2
                cnt2 += 1
            while x % 5 == 0:
                x //= 5
                cnt5 += 1
        c = cnt2 = cnt5 = min(cnt2, cnt5)
        suf = y = 1
        gt = False
        for x in range(left, right + 1):
            while cnt2 and x % 2 == 0:
                x //= 2
                cnt2 -= 1
            while cnt5 and x % 5 == 0:
                x //= 5
                cnt5 -= 1
            suf = suf * x % 100000
            if not gt:
                y *= x
                gt = y >= 1e10
        if not gt:
            return str(y) + "e" + str(c)
        pre = int(pow(10, z - int(z) + 4)) # Calculate first 5 digits using logarithm
        return str(pre) + "..." + str(suf).zfill(5) + "e" + str(c)
 

Other languages like Java, C++, and Go would follow similar logic with appropriate data type adjustments (e.g., using long long in C++ or float64 in Go for large numbers). Note that the use of numpy.float128 in Python and similar high-precision floating-point types in other languages improves the accuracy of calculating the first 5 digits for very large products.