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Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

EASYArrays Strings

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

You want to maximize your profit by choosing a single day to buy one stock and choosing a different day in the future to sell that stock.

Return the maximum profit you can achieve from this transaction. If you cannot achieve any profit, return 0.

Examples

Example 1

Input: prices = [7,1,5,3,6,4]
Output: 5

Buy on day 2 (price = 1) and sell on day 5 (price = 6), profit = 6-1 = 5. Note that buying on day 2 and selling on day 1 is not allowed because you must buy before you sell.

Example 2

Input: prices = [7,6,4,3,1]
Output: 0

In this case, no transactions are done and the max profit = 0.

Constraints

  • 1 <= prices.length <= 10^5
  • 0 <= prices[i] <= 10^4

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