#C3324. Maximum Stock Profit
Maximum Stock Profit
Maximum Stock Profit
You are given a list of stock prices, where the i-th element represents the price on day \(i+1\). Your task is to compute the maximum profit that can be achieved from a single buy and a single sell transaction. In other words, you need to find two indices \(i\) and \(j\) such that \(i < j\) and the difference \(prices[j] - prices[i]\) is maximized. If no profitable transaction is possible, output 0.
This can be formally expressed as: \[ \text{max\_profit} = \max_{0 \le i < j < n}\{prices[j] - prices[i]\} \]
If the list is empty or if no profit can be made, the answer is \(0\).
inputFormat
The input is read from stdin and has the following format:
T n prices[0] prices[1] ... prices[n-1] ... (repeated T times)
Where:
T
is the number of test cases.- For each test case, the first line contains an integer
n
specifying the number of days, and the second line containsn
space-separated integers representing the stock prices.
outputFormat
For each test case, output a single integer representing the maximum profit achievable, each on a new line, to stdout.
## sample2
6
7 1 5 3 6 4
5
7 6 4 3 1
5
0
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