121. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock
Leetcode Blind 75
20th June 2022 ~ Dion Pinto
Description
You are given an array prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock on the ith day. You want to maximize your profit by choosing a single day to buy one stock and choosing a different day in the future to sell that stock. Return the maximum profit you can achieve from this transaction. If you cannot achieve any profit, return 0. (Problem)
Code (Python)
import math
class Solution:
def maxProfit(self, prices: List[int]) -> int:
max_profit=0
mi=math.inf
for i in range(len(prices)):
if(prices[i]<mi):mi=prices[i]
max_profit=max(abs(prices[i]-mi),max_profit)
return max_profit
Time Complexity => o(n)
Space Complexity => o(1)