Dsa
Greedy
Medium
Stock Market Transactions
You are given an array of integers where each integer represents the price of a stock on the i-th day. You can complete at most one transaction (buy on one day and sell on another later day). Write a function to calculate the maximum profit you can achieve. If no profit is possible, return 0.
Input:
The first line contains an integer `n` (1 ≤ n ≤ 100), the number of days.
The second line contains `n` integers, where each integer represents the price of the stock on that day (0 ≤ prices[i] ≤ 1000).
Output:
Return the maximum profit you can achieve.
Example:
Input:
5
7 1 5 3 6 4
Output:
5
In this example, you should buy on day 2 (price = 1) and sell on day 5 (price = 6), resulting in a profit of 6 - 1 = 5.
Key concepts
greedyoptimizationarrays
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