leetcode11. Container With Most Water

You are given an integer array height of length n. There are n vertical lines drawn such that the two endpoints of the ith line are (i, 0) and (i, height[i]).

Find two lines that together with the x-axis form a container, such that the container contains the most water.

Return the maximum amount of water a container can store.

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
思路：双指针

class Solution:
    def maxArea(self, height: List[int]) -> int:
        i, j, res = 0, len(height) - 1, 0
        while i < j:
            if height[i] < height[j]:
                res = max(res, height[i] * (j - i))
                i += 1
            else:
                res = max(res, height[j] * (j - i))
                j -= 1
        return res