Problem Description:
Given two sparse matrices A and B, return the result of AB.
You may assume that A's column number is equal to B's row number.
Example:
A = [ [ 1, 0, 0], [-1, 0, 3] ] B = [ [ 7, 0, 0 ], [ 0, 0, 0 ], [ 0, 0, 1 ] ] | 1 0 0 | | 7 0 0 | | 7 0 0 | AB = | -1 0 3 | x | 0 0 0 | = | -7 0 3 | | 0 0 1 |
The solution is much more easier than we may have imagined. Take a look at this solution. But note that it is buggy as pointed out in the first comment (oh, how could the test cases be so weak)! I have rewritten it as follows.
class Solution { public: vector<vector<int>> multiply(vector<vector<int>>& A, vector<vector<int>>& B) { int m = A.size(), n = B.size(), p = B[0].size(); vector<vector<int>> C(m, vector<int>(p, 0)); for (int i = 0; i < m; i++) for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) if (A[i][j]) for (int k = 0; k < p; k++) C[i][k] += A[i][j] * B[j][k]; return C; } };