Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock II
Dynamic Programming
medium
Score: 30
You are given an integer array prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock on the ith day.
On each day, you may decide to buy and/or sell the stock. You can only hold at most one share of the stock at any time. However, you can buy it then immediately sell it on the same day.
return the maximum profit you can achieve.
Input Format:
First input - Number N
Second input - array prices
of size N
Output Format:
Return the number.
Example 1:
Input:
N=6
prices = 7 1 5 3 6 4
Output: 7
Explanation: Buy on day 2 (price = 1) and sell on day 3 (price = 5), profit = 5-1 = 4.
Then buy on day 4 (price = 3) and sell on day 5 (price = 6), profit = 6-3 = 3.
Total profit is 4 + 3 = 7.
Example 2:
Input:
N=5
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.
Total profit is 4.
Constraints:
- 1 <= prices.length <= 3 * 104
- 0 <= prices[i] <= 104
- Time Complexity: O(N)
- Space Complexity: O(1)