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Simulate Stock Trading for Maximum Profit

Medium
Coding

Problem

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