CodingEasycod-g1172

Subject ArraysLevel Entry–Mid~10 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

A warehouse dashboard shows the stock count of one product across several bins. Write a function that returns the spread of the counts: the difference between the largest and smallest values in the list. If the list is empty or has a single bin, the spread is 0. Example: counts [4, 9, 2, 7] gives a spread of 7 (9 minus 2).

Implement

stock_spread(counts: list[int]) → int

Examples

in[[4,9,2,7]]out7

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