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Largest Adjacent-Digit Product

Take every contiguous window of span digits and multiply its digits.

Problem

Take every contiguous window of span digits and multiply its digits. Return the largest product. Leading zeros are ordinary digits; a window containing zero has product zero. Do not reorder or skip digits.

Implement largest_adjacent_digit_product(digits, span).

Input

digits: The digit sequence, including any leading zeros.

span: The exact number of adjacent digits in a window.

Output

Return the greatest product over all windows of this width.

Constraints

1 ≤ digit-string length ≤ 100,000. Characters are 0…9. 1 ≤ span ≤ min(18, length). All products fit signed 64-bit.

Examples

Example 1
Input:
span = 2
digits = "23405"

Expected output:
expected = 12
Input:
long long span = 2;
std::string digits = "23405";

Expected output:
long long expected = 12;
Input:
long span = 2;
string digits = "23405";

Expected output:
long expected = 12;

Explanation

The windows 23, 34, 40, and 05 have products 6, 12, 0, and 0. The largest is 12.

Example 2
Input:
span = 3
digits = "102"

Expected output:
expected = 0
Input:
long long span = 3;
std::string digits = "102";

Expected output:
long long expected = 0;
Input:
long span = 3;
string digits = "102";

Expected output:
long expected = 0;

Explanation

There is only one width-three window. It contains zero, so 1 × 0 × 2 = 0.

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