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Container With Most Water

Container With Most Water

One Version - 96ms

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class Solution:
    def maxArea(self, height):
        """
        :type height: List[int]
        :rtype: int
        """
        i, j = 0, len(height) - 1
        left = right = water = 0
        while i <= j:
            left, right = max(left, height[i]), max(right, height[j])
            while i <= j and height[i] <= left <= right:
                water = max(water, (j - i) * min(left, right))
                i += 1
            while i <= j and height[j] <= right <= left:
                water = max(water, (j - i) * min(left, right))
                j -= 1
        return water

Another Version - 72ms

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class Solution:
    def maxArea(self, height):
        """
        :type height: List[int]
        :rtype: int
        """
        i, j = 0, len(height) - 1
        water = 0
        while i <= j:
            water = max(water, (j - i) * min(height[i], height[j]))
            if height[i] < height[j]:
                i += 1
            else:
                j -= 1
        return water

test code

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In [7]: s = Solution(); t = s.maxArea([1,8,6,2,5,4,8,3,7])
In [8]: t
Out[8]: 49

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