Express a Brute-Force Algorithm That fiNds the Largest Product of Two

question 49

Essay

Express a brute-force algorithm that finds the largest product of two numbers in a list a₁, a₂, . . . , a_n (n ≥ 2) that is less than a threshold N .

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Definitions:

File Stream

Objects in various programming languages that facilitate reading from and writing to files.

Fputs()

A function in C used to write a string to a file.

Fputc()

A standard library function in C used to write a character to a file or output stream.

Hexadecimal Byte

A data unit consisting of 8 bits represented in hexadecimal format, often used in computing to encode binary information.