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// Source : https://oj.leetcode.com/problems/best-time-to-buy-and-sell-stock/
// Author : Hao Chen
// Date : 2014-06-18
/**********************************************************************************
*
* Say you have an array for which the ith element is the price of a given stock on day i.
*
* If you were only permitted to complete at most one transaction (ie, buy one and sell one share of the stock),
* design an algorithm to find the maximum profit.
*
**********************************************************************************/
class Solution {
public:
//
// This solution is O(1) space dynamic programming
//
// We can make sure the max profit at least be ZERO. So,
// 1) we have two pointers (begin & end )
// 2) if prices[end] - prices[begin] > 0, then move the "end" pointer to next
// 3) if prices[end] - prices[begin] <= 0, then move the "begin" pointer to current posstion.
// 4) tracking the max profit
//
// Notes:
// Some people think find the highest-price & lowest-price, this is wrong.
// Because the highest-price must be after lowest-price
//
int maxProfit(vector<int> &prices) {
int max=0, begin=0, end=0, delta=0;
for (int i=0; i<prices.size(); i++) {
end = i;
delta = prices[end] - prices[begin];
if (delta <= 0){
begin = i;
}
if ( delta > max ){
max = delta;
}
}
return max;
}
};
class Solution {
public:
int maxProfit(vector<int>& prices) {
int buy = INT_MAX;
int profit = 0;
for (auto p : prices) {
// Keep tracking the previous lowest price
buy = min (buy, p);
// Keep tacking the current max profit
profit = max(profit, p - buy);
}
return profit;
}
};