Exercise 4: Multiply List Elements

[arcangelo7]

Implement def multiply_elements(number_list) using a divide-and-conquer approach to multiply all the elements in a list of numbers. The use of loops is prohibited.

[Pepe066]

def multiply_elements(number_list):
    mid = len(number_list) // 2
    if len(number_list) == 1:
        return number_list[0]
    else:
        return  multiply_elements(number_list[0:mid]) * multiply_elements(number_list[mid:len(number_list)])

print(multiply_elements([5,5,6]))

[MariaFrancesca6]

def multiply_elements(number_list):
    if len(number_list) == 1:
        return number_list[0]
    else: 
        mid = len(number_list) //2
        first_part = number_list[0:mid]
        second_part = number_list[mid:len(number_list)]
        return multiply_elements(first_part) * multiply_elements(second_part)
        
number_list = [1,2,3]
print(multiply_elements(number_list))

[enricabruno]

def multiply_elements(number_list):
    result = list()
    mid = len(number_list) // 2
    if len(number_list) ==1:
        return number_list[0]
    else:
        left_part = number_list[0:mid]
        right_part = number_list[mid:]

        return multiply_elements(left_part) * multiply_elements(right_part)


print(multiply_elements([0, 3, 4, 6, 7]))

[valetedd]

def multiply_elements(number_list):
    if 0 in number_list:
        return 0
    if len(number_list) == 1:
        return number_list[0]
    elif len(number_list) == 2:
        return number_list[0] * number_list[1]
    else:
        mid_pos = len(number_list) // 2
        return multiply_elements(number_list[0:mid_pos]) * multiply_elements(number_list[mid_pos:len(number_list)])