LeetCode in Kotlin

123. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock III

Hard

You are given an array prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock on the ith day.

Find the maximum profit you can achieve. You may complete at most two transactions.

Note: You may not engage in multiple transactions simultaneously (i.e., you must sell the stock before you buy again).

Example 1:

Input: prices = [3,3,5,0,0,3,1,4]

Output: 6

Explanation: Buy on day 4 (price = 0) and sell on day 6 (price = 3), profit = 3-0 = 3. Then buy on day 7 (price = 1) and sell on day 8 (price = 4), profit = 4-1 = 3.

Example 2:

Input: prices = [1,2,3,4,5]

Output: 4

Explanation: Buy on day 1 (price = 1) and sell on day 5 (price = 5), profit = 5-1 = 4. Note that you cannot buy on day 1, buy on day 2 and sell them later, as you are engaging multiple transactions at the same time. You must sell before buying again.

Example 3:

Input: prices = [7,6,4,3,1]

Output: 0

Explanation: In this case, no transaction is done, i.e. max profit = 0.

Constraints:

Solution

class Solution {
    fun maxProfit(prices: IntArray): Int {
        val n = prices.size
        if (n < 2) {
            return 0
        }
        val a = IntArray(n) { 0 }
        var minP = prices[0]
        var maxA = 0
        for (i in 1 until n) {
            minP = minOf(minP, prices[i])
            maxA = maxOf(maxA, prices[i] - minP)
            a[i] = maxA
        }
        var maxP = prices[n - 1]
        maxA = a[n - 1]
        for (i in n - 2 downTo 0) {
            maxP = maxOf(maxP, prices[i])
            maxA = maxOf(maxA, maxP - prices[i] + a[i])
        }
        return maxA
    }
}