Question
Given n non-negative integers representing the histogram’s bar height where the width of each bar is 1, find the area of largest rectangle in the histogram.
Above is a histogram where width of each bar is 1, given height = [2,1,5,6,2,3].
The largest rectangle is shown in the shaded area, which has area = 10 unit.
For example,
Given height = [2,1,5,6,2,3],
return 10.
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class Solution(object):
def largestRectangleArea(self, height):
"""
:type height: List[int]
:rtype: int
"""
if height==[]:
return 0
stack = []
cur, maxnum = 0, 0
for ind, elem in enumerate(height):
while stack!=[] and elem<=height[stack[-1]]:
index = stack.pop()
cur = ind*height[index] if stack==[] else (ind - index)*height[index]
maxnum = max(cur, maxnum)
stack.append(ind)
while stack!=[]:
index = stack.pop()
cur = len(height)*height[index] if stack==[] else (len(height)-index)*height[index]
maxnum = max(cur, maxnum)
return maxnum
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class Solution(object):
def largestRectangleArea(self, height):
"""
:type height: List[int]
:rtype: int
"""
if height==[]:
return 0
stack = [] # stack contains elements in increasing order
cur, maxnum = 0, 0
for ind, elem in enumerate(height):
while stack!=[] and elem<=height[stack[-1]]:
index = stack.pop()
# if stack==[], it means all elems with index less than ind are higher than elem, so area = ind*height[index]
cur = ind*height[index] if stack==[] else (ind - stack[-1] -1)*height[index]
maxnum = max(cur, maxnum)
stack.append(ind)
while stack!=[]:
index = stack.pop()
cur = len(height)*height[index] if stack==[] else (len(height)-stack[-1]-1)*height[index]
maxnum = max(cur, maxnum)
return maxnum