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11. Container With Most Water

Medium

Given n non-negative integers a1, a2, ..., an , where each represents a point at coordinate (i, ai). n vertical lines are drawn such that the two endpoints of the line i is at (i, ai) and (i, 0). Find two lines, which, together with the x-axis forms a container, such that the container contains the most water.

Notice that you may not slant the container.

Example 1:

Input: height = [1,8,6,2,5,4,8,3,7]

Output: 49

Explanation: The above vertical lines are represented by array [1,8,6,2,5,4,8,3,7]. In this case, the max area of water (blue section) the container can contain is 49.

Example 2:

Input: height = [1,1]

Output: 1

Example 3:

Input: height = [4,3,2,1,4]

Output: 16

Example 4:

Input: height = [1,2,1]

Output: 2

Constraints:

• n == height.length
• 2 <= n <= 105
• 0 <= height[i] <= 104

Solution

# @param {Integer[]} height
# @return {Integer}
def max_area(height)
  max_area = -1
  left = 0
  right = height.length - 1

  while left < right
    if height[left] < height[right]
      max_area = [max_area, height[left] * (right - left)].max
      left += 1
    else
      max_area = [max_area, height[right] * (right - left)].max
      right -= 1
    end
  end

  max_area
end

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