Best Time to Buy & Sell Stock I
Tracks minimum buy price so far to compute maximum single transaction profit.
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Reference implementation (Python)
def max_profit(prices):
min_price = float('inf')
max_profit = 0
for p in prices:
if p < min_price: min_price = p
elif p - min_price > max_profit:
max_profit = p - min_price
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