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Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock
Problem
Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock
You are given an array prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock on the i-th day.
You want to maximize your profit by choosing a single day to buy one stock and choosing a different day in the future to sell that stock. Return the maximum profit you can achieve. If you cannot achieve any profit, return 0.
Example 1:
Input: prices = [7,1,5,3,6,4]
Output: 5
Explanation: Buy on day 2 (price = 1) and sell on day 5 (price = 6), profit = 6-1 = 5.
Example 2:
Input: prices = [7,6,4,3,1]
Output: 0
Explanation: Prices are decreasing, no profit is possible.
Constraints:
- 1 ≤ prices.length ≤ 10⁵
- 0 ≤ prices[i] ≤ 10⁴