LC-2110 Medium LeetCode

2110. Number of Smooth Descent Periods of a Stock

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Difficulty: medium Acceptance: 59% Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming

Reading material

Arrays & Hashing 12 min Math & Geometry 12 min 1-D Dynamic Programming 16 min

Reference solution (spoiler · python)

# Time:  O(n)
# Space: O(1)

class Solution(object):
    def getDescentPeriods(self, prices):
        """
        :type prices: List[int]
        :rtype: int
        """
        result = l = 0
        for i in xrange(len(prices)):
            l += 1
            if i+1 == len(prices) or prices[i]-1 != prices[i+1]:
                result += l*(l+1)//2
                l = 0
        return result

Solution from kamyu104/LeetCode-Solutions · MIT