- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Greedy, Bit Manipulation, Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Enumeration, Sorting, leetcode-2708, O(n), O(1)
Problem
You are given a 0-indexed integer array nums
representing the score of students in an exam. The teacher would like to form one non-empty group of students with maximal strength, where the strength of a group of students of indices i0
, i1
, i2
, ... , ik
is defined as nums[i0] * nums[i1] * nums[i2] * ... * nums[ik]
.
Return the maximum strength of a group the teacher can create.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [3,-1,-5,2,5,-9] Output: 1350 Explanation: One way to form a group of maximal strength is to group the students at indices [0,2,3,4,5]. Their strength is 3 * (-5) * 2 * 5 * (-9) = 1350, which we can show is optimal.
Example 2:
Input: nums = [-4,-5,-4] Output: 20 Explanation: Group the students at indices [0, 1] . Then, we’ll have a resulting strength of 20. We cannot achieve greater strength.
Constraints:
1 <= nums.length <= 13
-9 <= nums[i] <= 9