Add comments for "Container With Most Water"

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Hao Chen 2014-10-22 17:42:21 +08:00
parent 990d56f06c
commit f610c45a4a

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class Solution {
public:
int maxArea(vector<int> &height) {
int area = 0;
int i = 0;
int j = height.size()-1;
while(i<j){
int a = (j-i)* (height[i]>height[j] ? height[j] : height[i]);
area = a>area ? a : area;
height[i]>height[j] ? j-- : i++;
int maxArea = 0;
// two pointers scan from two sides to middle
int left = 0;
int right = height.size()-1;
int area;
while ( left < right ){
//calculate the area
area = (right - left) * ( height[left] < height[right] ? height[left] : height[right]);
//tracking the maxium area
maxArea = area > maxArea ? area : maxArea;
// because the area is decided by the shorter edge
// so we increase the area is to increase the shorter edge
height[left] < height[right] ? left++ : right-- ;
}
return area;
return maxArea;
}
};