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.
ExampleGiven array [3,2,3,1,2]
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return 1
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Buy&sale类题目和寻找最大上升/下降区间类题目类似,除朴素算法外,还可以使用移动区间方法。 设一个指针指向上升区间开始点,发现上升区间结束后,更新指针。移动指针同时保存每一次得到的最大值。
public class Solution {
/**
* @param prices: Given an integer array
* @return: Maximum profit
*/
public int maxProfit(int[] prices) {
if(prices.length <= 1) return 0;
int res = 0, begin = prices[0];
for(int i = 1; i < prices.length; i++) {
if(prices[i] < begin) begin = prices[i];
else {
res = Math.max(res, prices[i] - begin);
}
}
return res;
}
}