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Help me with this easy multiplication problem
By StellarSpecter, history, 3 months ago, In English

Given two numbers represented as strings a and b, compute their product and output product as a string.

|a| <=1e6, |b|<=1e6

How do I solve it, I brute forced it and it gives me TLE.

can anyone help me? is there an optimal way ??

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impossible

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-is-this-fft-

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So we have $$$10^{10^6} \cdot 10^{10^6} = 10^{2000000}$$$ , bro go create some new structure for such numbers

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I have a n^2 solution but it also gives a TLE under these constraints. can you send the problem link?

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Using FFT it can be solved in O(nlogn), n = max ( | a | , | b | ).

Check this out

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What is FFT can anyone explain or is this a bluff and the problem is unsolvable ?

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