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121. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock
Easy
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.
Example 1:
Input: prices = [7,1,5,3,6,4]
Output: 5
Explanation: Buy on day 2 (price = 1) and sell on day 5 (price = 6), profit = 6-1 = 5. Note that buying on day 2 and selling on day 1 is not allowed because you must buy before you sell.
Example 2:
Input: prices = [7,6,4,3,1]
Output: 0
Explanation: In this case, no transactions are done and the max profit = 0.
Constraints:
1 <= prices.length <= 1050 <= prices[i] <= 104
Solution
object Solution {
def maxProfit(prices: Array[Int]): Int = {
var maxProfit = 0
var min = prices(0)
for (i <- 1 until prices.length) {
if (prices(i) > min) {
maxProfit = math.max(maxProfit, prices(i) - min)
} else {
min = prices(i)
}
}
maxProfit
}
}