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43. Multiply Strings

https://leetcode.com/problems/multiply-strings/

js
/**
 * @param {string} num1
 * @param {string} num2
 * @return {string}
 */
var multiply = function(num1, num2) {
  if (num1 === '0' || num2 === '0') {
    return '0'
  }

  num1 = num1.split('').map(n => +n).reverse()
  num2 = num2.split('').map(n => +n).reverse()

  var result = []

  num1.forEach((a, i) => {
    num2.forEach((b, j) => {
      result[i + j] = (result[i + j] || 0) + a * b
    })
  })

  result.forEach((n, i) => {
    if (n >= 10) {
      result[i] = n % 10
      result[i + 1] = (result[i + 1] || 0) + (n / 10 >> 0)
    }
  })

  return result.reverse().join('')
}
py
class Solution(object):

    def multiply(self, num1, num2):
        """
        :type num1: str
        :type num2: str
        :rtype: str
        """
        if num1 == '0' or num2 == '0':
            return '0'

        num1 = list(map(lambda x: int(x), num1))
        num2 = list(map(lambda x: int(x), num2))
        num1.reverse()
        num2.reverse()
        result = [0 for i in range(len(num1) + len(num2) - 1)]

        for i, a in enumerate(num1):
            for j, b in enumerate(num2):
                result[i + j] += a * b

        for i, n in enumerate(result):
            if i < len(result) - 1 and n >= 10:
                result[i] = n % 10
                result[i + 1] += n // 10

        result = list(map(lambda x: str(x), result))
        result.reverse()
        return ''.join(result)