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Ah sorry about that. I'm using c++ currently.

Hello All,

I am not able to understand problem number 8.

My Understanding:

1) trying to find the 5 consecutive number (having the highest product) within this 1000 digit numbers.
2) say, i select (1-5) numbers, get it's product, then get(2-6) number and get it's product.... keep doing this thing till the end and always making a note of the highest number within them.

Am I right?

1) I just loop through the 1000 digits.
2) Get the 5 numbers from the array 1 by 1.
3) Get the product of the these number.
4) Compare the previous highest value with the present one .
....

Well, have you tried that way? What result did you get?

The answer is the product, not the 5 digit string

Ex: If you get that the string 12345 with product 120 has the greatest product, then the answer is 120 and NOT 12345

@pawanbcd

We realize you are new to this forum. For problems under 100, the number is padded with leading 0's to make it a 3-digit number. This makes it easier for archiving and searching. By using this procedure, an answer to your question might already be available in previous posts.

You may also find useful information in the sticky topic entitled "Comments, questions and clarifications about PE problems".

EdoI wrote:Well, have you tried that way? What result did you get?

Yes I tried this way and i get the answer as "28xx68" ( cannot tell the complete as per website rules ).

It says it is wrong answer.

Usuario wrote:The answer is the product, not the 5 digit string

Ex: If you get that the string 12345 with product 120 has the greatest product, then the answer is 120 and NOT 12345

Yes i got this point and i copied the product of the consecutive five number as my answer, My Answer is "Edited away by moderator" and the consecutive string i get is "Edited away by moderator"?

It tells the answer is wrong.

You should probably edit out even those figures, since searching for those partial strings really gives everything away.

Have you tried multiplying the digits you found by hand? I can't see how you possibly got the product you mentioned.

You do realise that the problem asks for the product of FIVE digits, don't you?

hello all i started this problem a day ago i think my code should do what the problem asks but i keep getting the wrong answer

also guys what is the maximum size u can use an array with i.e

const int MAX = 50;
int array[MAX] ={};

i am asking because does the size alter calculation accuracy because im using a size of 250 to hold the numbers given in the problem.

Why 250?
How many sets of five consecutive digits have 6-digit number?

i have none that = 6 digit number max is 5.

Please use existing problem threads: viewtopic.php?f=50&t=845

There are more than 200 possible 5-digit substrings of a 1000 digit string. 31671 is the second one.

@mega_unknown :

For your info, problem numbers below 100 are padded with two 0's to make them 3-digit numbers.

Also for your info, starting with the first digit of the 1000-digit string having an index of 1, the first 5-digit substring would be digits 1-5; the next 5-digit substring would be digits 2-6; and so on. How many 5-digit substrings would there be in the 1000-digit string???

I feel so stupid through solving this problem...there is no complete explanation for this problem.
I beg the admin to rewrite this problem in humble way...I understood it in many ways and no one is correct.

@mega_unknown :

Please read again the big red banner at the top of the page when you make a post.

As for your request to rewrite the problem description, it has already been solved by well over 100,000 persons without any such request. It can be assumed that it is sufficiently clear.

Thanks rayfil , I have solved it couple seconds ago

How did everyone grab the data off the number 008 site? I copied/pasted into idle (python) and I am getting syntax errors in the data also does the same when I grabbed data from source of the page.

Thanks

If you grabbed it from the source page, you would have noticed that each line is terminated by a "<br />" (which is a code for the html page rendering to perform the carriage return/line feed) and would have been copied along with the remainder of the text numbers. You would have to remove those before processing the actual number.
If you grab it from the problem description, you probably get "carriage return/line feed" characters copied along with the numbers. Same as above before processing.
One trick might be to
- copy the latter first into a word processor such as Windows Note Pad,
- remove all the "carriage return/line feed" characters
- turn WordWrap OFF
- and grab only the resulting string of numbers.