How to find the largest product?
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* Write a function max_product that takes v a vector and n, a positive integer, as inputs and computes the largest product of n consecutive elements of v. It returns the product and the index of the element of v that is the first term of the product. If there are multiple such products in v, the function must return the one with the smallest starting index. As an example, the following call >> [product, ind] = max_product([1 2 2 1 3 1],3); will assign 6 to product and 3 to ind since the max 3-term product in the input vector is 2*1*3. If v has fewer than n elements, the function returns 0 and -1, respectively.
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Stephen23
on 21 Nov 2017
Edited: Stephen23
on 21 Nov 2017
function [product,ind] = max_product(a,n)
product = 0;
ind = -1;
num = numel(a);
for k = 1:1+num-n
tmp = prod(a(k:k+n-1));
if tmp>product
product = tmp;
ind = k;
end
end
end
And tested:
>> [product, ind] = max_product([1 2 2 1 3 1],3)
product = 6
ind = 3
>> [product, ind] = max_product([1 2 2 1 3 9],3)
product = 27
ind = 4
>> [product, ind] = max_product([1 2 2 1 3 9],9)
product = 0
ind = -1
This could be vectorized, or you could use movprod, but using a loop makes the algorithm clear.
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Jan
on 21 Nov 2017
Edited: Jan
on 21 Nov 2017
And a vectorized version:
function [P, Ind] = max_product(v, n)
X = v((1:numel(v) - n + 1) + (0:n-1).');
[P, Ind] = max(prod(X, 1));
end
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silvia a
on 30 Jul 2018
Edited: silvia a
on 30 Jul 2018
thank you very much for your answer; I have solved it;
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Andrei Bobrov
on 21 Nov 2017
Edited: Andrei Bobrov
on 21 Nov 2017
Op! Everyone solves someone else's homework ... I also want! :)
[product1, ind] = max(prod(hankel(a(1:end-b+1),a(end-b+1:end)),2))
as function:
function [product1,ind]=max_product(a,b)
try
[product1, ind] = max(prod(hankel(a(1:end-b+1),a(end-b+1:end)),2));
catch
product1 = 0;
ind = -1;
end
end
with conv2:
function [product1,ind]=max_product(a,b)
try
[product1, ind] = max(exp(conv2(log(a(:)),ones(b,1),'valid')));
catch
product1 = 0;
ind = -1;
end
end
with movsum
[product1, ind] = max(exp(movsum(log(a),[0, b-1])));
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