[leetcode]123. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock III 最佳炒股时机之三

Say you have an array for which the ith element is the price of a given stock on day i.

Design an algorithm to find the maximum profit. You may complete at most two transactions.

Note: You may not engage in multiple transactions at the same time (i.e., you must sell the stock before you buy again).

Example 1:

题目

和之前一样，这次你至多能买卖两次。

思路

1. Split the array into two parts, one trade each.

2. Say that f(i) stands for max profit in [0,i] , g(i) stands for max profix in [i, n-1] , then update and finally return max(f(i) + g(i))

代码

// Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock III
// 时间复杂度O(n)，空间复杂度O(n)
public class Solution {
    public int maxProfit(int[] prices) {
        if (prices.length < 2) return 0;

        final int n = prices.length;
        int[] f = new int[n];
        int[] g = new int[n];

        for (int i = 1, valley = prices[0]; i < n; ++i) {
            valley = Math.min(valley, prices[i]);
            f[i] = Math.max(f[i - 1], prices[i] - valley);
        }

        for (int i = n - 2, peak = prices[n - 1]; i >= 0; --i) {
            peak = Math.max(peak, prices[i]);
            g[i] = Math.max(g[i], peak - prices[i]);
        }

        int max_profit = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
            max_profit = Math.max(max_profit, f[i] + g[i]);

        return max_profit;
    }
}