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You are given an integer array height of length n. There are n vertical lines drawn such that the two endpoints of the ith line are (i, 0) and (i, height[i]).

Find two lines that together with the x-axis form a container, such that the container contains the most water.

Return the maximum amount of water a container can store.

class Solution:
    def maxArea(self, height: List[int]) -> int:
        left = 0
        right = len(height) - 1
        maxArea = 0

        while left < right:
            currentArea = min(height[left], height[right]) * (right - left)
            maxArea = max(maxArea, currentArea)

            if height[left] < height[right]:
                left += 1
            else:
                right -= 1

        return maxArea

Posted by Jamie Meyer 7 months ago

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