Best Time To Buy And Sell Stock Iii Problem
Description
LeetCode Problem 123.
You are given an array prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock on the i^th 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:
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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:
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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:
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Input: prices = [7,6,4,3,1]
Output: 0
Explanation: In this case, no transaction is done, i.e. max profit = 0.
Example 4:
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Input: prices = [1]
Output: 0
Constraints:
- 1 <= prices.length <= 10^5
- 0 <= prices[i] <= 10^5
Sample C++ Code
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class Solution {
public:
int MaxProfitDp(int[] prices) {
// DP formula:
// dp[k, i] = max(dp[k, i-1], prices[i] - prices[j] + dp[k-1, j-1]), j=[0..i-1]
if (prices.Length == 0) return 0;
var dp = new int[3, prices.Length];
for (int k = 1; k <= 2; k++) {
int min = prices[0];
for (int i = 1; i < prices.Length; i++) {
min = Math.Min(min, prices[i] - dp[k-1, i-1]);
dp[k, i] = Math.Max(dp[k, i-1], prices[i] - min);
}
}
return dp[2, prices.Length - 1];
}
};