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Maximize Profit from Stock Prices

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Coding
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Problem

Given an array of integers prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock on the i-th day, return the maximum profit you can achieve from this transaction. You may complete at most one transaction (i.e., buy one and sell one share of the stock). If you cannot achieve any profit, return 0.

Constraints

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

Function Signature

def max_profit(prices: list[int]) -> int:

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def solve(rows):
    counts = {}
    for row in rows:
        ...
    return result
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