Abhishek Chaudhary
Posted on June 10, 2022
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
Constraints:
-
n == height.length
-
2 <= n <= 105
-
0 <= height[i] <= 104
SOLUTION:
class Solution:
def maxArea(self, height: List[int]) -> int:
n = len(height)
i = 0
j = n - 1
mvol = (j - i) * min(height[i], height[j])
while i < j:
if height[i] < height[j]:
i += 1
else:
j -= 1
mvol = max(mvol, (j - i) * min(height[i], height[j]))
return mvol
Posted on June 10, 2022
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