[UVa] 392 - Polynomial Showdown

Just conditioning, loads of ifs

If you're getting PE or WA just test with some isolated values for different coefficients. Some of my test cases are.

0    0    0    1   22 -333    0    1   -1
0    0    0    0    0    0  -55    5    0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

x^5 + 22x^4 - 333x^3 + x - 1
-55x^2 + 5x
0
-1
-x
-x^2
-x^3
-x^4
-x^5
-x^6
-x^7
-x^8
0

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int a[10];

int main()
{
    int i, print, z;
    //freopen("input.txt","r+",stdin);
    //freopen("output.txt","w+",stdout);
    while (scanf("%d %d %d %d %d %d %d %d %d",&a[8],&a[7],&a[6],&a[5],&a[4],&a[3],&a[2],&a[1],&a[0])==9)
    {
        for (i=0, z=1 ; i<9 && z; i++)      //-----|Checking if the
            if (a[i]) z=0;                  //-----|polynomial is zero

        if (z) {                            //-----|The polynomial is found
            printf("0\n");                  //-----|to be zero in fact
            continue;
        }

    //-[ The first value of the equation is not printed yet ]
        print=0;
        for (i=8 ; i>1 ; i--)
        {
            if (print && a[i]) printf(" ");

            if (a[i]==-1)
            {
                (print? printf("- x^%d",i) : printf("-x^%d",i) );
            } else if (a[i]==1)
            {
                (print? printf("+ x^%d",i) : printf("x^%d",i) );
            } else if (a[i]<0)
            {
                (print? printf("- %dx^%d",-1*a[i],i) : printf("%dx^%d",a[i],i) );
            } else if (a[i])
            {
                (print? printf("+ %dx^%d",a[i],i) : printf("%dx^%d",a[i],i) );
            }
        //-- [ From the next time a space will seperate characters ]
            if(a[i]) print=1;
        }
        if (a[i])
        {
            if (print && a[i]) printf(" ");
            if (a[i]==-1)
            {
                (print? printf("- x") : printf("-x") );
            } else if (a[i]==1)
            {
                (print? printf("+ x") : printf("x") );
            } else if (a[i]<0)
            {
                (print? printf("- %dx",-1*a[i]) : printf("%dx",a[i]) );
            } else if (a[i])
            {
                (print? printf("+ %dx",a[i]) : printf("%dx",a[i]));
            }
        //-- [ From the next time a space will seperate characters ]
            if(a[i]) print=1;
        }
        i--;
        if (a[i])
        {
            if (print && a[i]) printf(" ");
            if (a[i]<0)
            {
                (print ? printf("- %d",-1*a[i]) : printf("%d",a[i]) );
            } else if (a[i])
            {
                (print ? printf("+ %d",a[i]) : printf("%d",a[i]) );
            }
        }

        printf("\n");
    }
    return 0;
}