/* A naive recursive implementation that simply follows the above optimal substructure property */ #include #include int MatrixChainOrder(int p[], int n) { /* For simplicity of the program, one extra row and one extra column are allocated in m[][]. 0th row and 0th column of m[][] are not used */ int m[n][n]; int s[n][n]; int i, j, k, L, q; /* m[i,j] = Minimum number of scalar multiplications needed to compute the matrix A[i]A[i+1]...A[j] = A[i..j] where dimention of A[i] is p[i-1] x p[i] */ // cost is zero when multiplying one matrix. for (i = 1; i < n; i++) m[i][i] = 0; // L is chain length. for (L = 2; L < n; L++) { for (i = 1; i <= n - L + 1; i++) { j = i + L - 1; m[i][j] = INT_MAX; for (k = i; k <= j - 1; k++) { // q = cost/scalar multiplications q = m[i][k] + m[k + 1][j] + p[i - 1] * p[k] * p[j]; if (q < m[i][j]) { m[i][j] = q; s[i][j] = k; } } } } return m[1][n - 1]; } int main() { printf( "Enter the array p[], which represents the chain of matrices such that the ith matrix Ai is of dimension p[i-1] x p[i]"); printf("Enter the total length:"); int n; scanf("%d", &n); int array[n]; printf("Enter the dimensions: "); int var; for (var = 0; var < n; ++var) { scanf("%d", array[var]); } printf("Minimum number of multiplications is: %d", MatrixChainOrder(array, n)); return 0; }