Code RoomBest buy-sell profit
MediumPrep Room Coding #361

Best buy-sell profit

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresEntry–Mid~15 min

A reseller watches one collectible's price each day and may buy on one day and sell on any strictly later day, at most once. Given the price history, return the largest profit possible, or 0 if no profitable buy-sell pair of days exists. Example: [7, 1, 5, 3, 6, 4] yields 5 (buy at 1, sell at 6).

Implement
best_flip_profit(prices: list[int]) → int
Examples
in[[7,1,5,3,6,4]]out5
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

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InputExpectedGot
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