我们可以先从列表中排除nums[j](其中j != i)，然后得到其余部分的乘积;下面是python解决这个难题的方法:

from functools import reduce
def products(nums):
    return [ reduce(lambda x,y: x * y, nums[:i] + nums[i+1:]) for i in range(len(nums)) ]
print(products([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]))

[out]
[120, 60, 40, 30, 24]

多基因润滑剂方法的一个解释是:

诀窍是构造数组(在4个元素的情况下):

{              1,         a[0],    a[0]*a[1],    a[0]*a[1]*a[2],  }
{ a[1]*a[2]*a[3],    a[2]*a[3],         a[3],                 1,  }

这两种方法都可以在O(n)中分别从左右边开始。

然后，将两个数组逐个元素相乘，得到所需的结果。

我的代码看起来是这样的:

int a[N] // This is the input
int products_below[N];
int p = 1;
for (int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
    products_below[i] = p;
    p *= a[i];
}

int products_above[N];
p = 1;
for (int i = N - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
    products_above[i] = p;
    p *= a[i];
}

int products[N]; // This is the result
for (int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
    products[i] = products_below[i] * products_above[i];
}

如果你也需要空间中的解是O(1)，你可以这样做(在我看来不太清楚):

int a[N] // This is the input
int products[N];

// Get the products below the current index
int p = 1;
for (int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
    products[i] = p;
    p *= a[i];
}

// Get the products above the current index
p = 1;
for (int i = N - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
    products[i] *= p;
    p *= a[i];
}

下面是我尝试用Java来解决这个问题。抱歉格式不规范，但代码有很多重复，这是我能做的最好的，使它可读。

import java.util.Arrays;

public class Products {
    static int[] products(int... nums) {
        final int N = nums.length;
        int[] prods = new int[N];
        Arrays.fill(prods, 1);
        for (int
           i = 0, pi = 1    ,  j = N-1, pj = 1  ;
           (i < N)         && (j >= 0)          ;
           pi *= nums[i++]  ,  pj *= nums[j--]  )
        {
           prods[i] *= pi   ;  prods[j] *= pj   ;
        }
        return prods;
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(
            Arrays.toString(products(1, 2, 3, 4, 5))
        ); // prints "[120, 60, 40, 30, 24]"
    }
}

循环不变量为pi = nums[0] * nums[1] *..* nums[N-2] *..num [j + 1]。左边的i部分是“前缀”逻辑，右边的j部分是“后缀”逻辑。

递归一行程序

Jasmeet给出了一个(漂亮的!)递归解;我把它变成了这样(可怕!)Java一行程序。它进行就地修改，堆栈中有O(N)个临时空间。

static int multiply(int[] nums, int p, int n) {
    return (n == nums.length) ? 1
      : nums[n] * (p = multiply(nums, nums[n] * (nums[n] = p), n + 1))
          + 0*(nums[n] *= p);
}

int[] arr = {1,2,3,4,5};
multiply(arr, 1, 0);
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(arr));
// prints "[120, 60, 40, 30, 24]"

以下是线性O(n)时间内的简单Scala版本:

def getProductEff(in:Seq[Int]):Seq[Int] = {

   //create a list which has product of every element to the left of this element
   val fromLeft = in.foldLeft((1, Seq.empty[Int]))((ac, i) => (i * ac._1, ac._2 :+ ac._1))._2

   //create a list which has product of every element to the right of this element, which is the same as the previous step but in reverse
   val fromRight = in.reverse.foldLeft((1,Seq.empty[Int]))((ac,i) => (i * ac._1,ac._2 :+ ac._1))._2.reverse

   //merge the two list by product at index
   in.indices.map(i => fromLeft(i) * fromRight(i))

}

这是可行的，因为本质上答案是一个数组，它是左右所有元素的乘积。

还有一个O(N^(3/2))非最优解。不过，这很有趣。

首先预处理大小为N^0.5的每个部分乘法(这在O(N)时间复杂度中完成)。然后，计算每个数字的其他值的倍数可以在2*O(N^0.5)时间内完成(为什么?因为您只需要将其他((N^0.5) - 1)数字的最后一个元素相乘，并将结果与属于当前数字组的((N^0.5) - 1)数字相乘。对每一个数都这样做，可以得到O(N^(3/2))时间。

例子:

4, 6, 7, 2, 3, 1, 9, 5, 8

部分结果: 4*6*7 = 168 2*3*1 = 6 9*5*8 = 360

要计算3的值，需要将其他组的值乘以168*360，然后乘以2*1。

这是ptyhon版本

  # This solution use O(n) time and O(n) space
  def productExceptSelf(self, nums):
    """
    :type nums: List[int]
    :rtype: List[int]
    """
    N = len(nums)
    if N == 0: return

    # Initialzie list of 1, size N
    l_prods, r_prods = [1]*N, [1]*N

    for i in range(1, N):
      l_prods[i] = l_prods[i-1] * nums[i-1]

    for i in reversed(range(N-1)):
      r_prods[i] = r_prods[i+1] * nums[i+1]

    result = [x*y for x,y in zip(l_prods,r_prods)]
    return result

  # This solution use O(n) time and O(1) space
  def productExceptSelfSpaceOptimized(self, nums):
    """
    :type nums: List[int]
    :rtype: List[int]
    """
    N = len(nums)
    if N == 0: return

    # Initialzie list of 1, size N
    result = [1]*N

    for i in range(1, N):
      result[i] = result[i-1] * nums[i-1]

    r_prod = 1
    for i in reversed(range(N)):
      result[i] *= r_prod
      r_prod *= nums[i]

    return result