Exercise 15.2.2
Give a recursive algorithm
MATRIX-CHAIN-MULTIPLY(A, s, i, j)
that actually performs the optimal matrix-chain multiplication, given the sequence of matrices $\langle A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_n \rangle$, the $s$ table computedMATRIX-CHAIN-ORDER
, and the indices $i$ and $j$. (The initial call would beMATRIX-CHAIN-MULTIPLY(A, s, 1, n)
.)
Unless I'm missing something really clever, this is either super trivial, or a big annoyance in managing memory.
The best way to do it is to just modify PRINT-OPTIMAL-PARENS
to do the
multiplication. The recursive structure of the algorithm is the same.