Code RoomContainer with most water
MediumPrep Room Coding #1574

Container with most water

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~25 min

Given an array of heights, pick two lines that together with the x-axis form a container holding the most water. Return that maximum area.

Implement
max_area(height: list[int]) → int
Examples
in[[1,8,6,2,5,4,8,3,7]]out49
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
[[1,8,6,2,5,4,8,3,7]]49not run yetsample