#C12679. Maximum Profit in a Single Stock Trade
Maximum Profit in a Single Stock Trade
Maximum Profit in a Single Stock Trade
You are given an array of integers representing the stock prices of a company over time. Your task is to determine the maximum profit that can be made by executing a single buy-and-sell transaction. If no profit is possible, output 0.
The profit is defined as:
\( \text{profit} = \text{selling price} - \text{buying price} \)
You must choose a day to buy and a later day to sell the stock so that the profit is maximized. This is a classic problem often summarized as "Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock".
inputFormat
The input is read from stdin
and has the following format:
- The first line contains an integer \(n\) indicating the number of stock prices.
- The second line contains \(n\) space-separated integers representing the stock prices.
outputFormat
Output a single integer to stdout
representing the maximum profit achievable from exactly one buy-sell transaction. If no profit can be achieved, output 0.
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