Saturday, April 18, 2015

[LeetCode] Container With Most Water



Given n non-negative integers a1, a2, ..., an, where each represents a point at coordinate (i, ai). n vertical lines are drawn such that the two endpoints of line i is at (i, ai) and (i, 0). Find two lines, which together with x-axis forms a container, such that the container contains the most water.

Note: You may not slant the container.

class Solution {
public:
    int maxArea(vector& height) {
        int right = height.size() - 1;        
        int left = 0;
        int maxCap =0; 
        while(left<=right)
        {
            int sub = min(height[left], 
                    height[right])*(right-left);

            maxCap = max(maxCap, sub);
            if(height[left] < height[right])
            {
                left++;
            }
            else
            {
                right--;
            }
        }
        return maxCap;
    }
};