LeetCode 1014, Medium. Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming. View on LeetCode.
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Problem
You are given an integer array values where values[i] represents the value of the ith sightseeing spot. Two sightseeing spots i and j have a distance j - i between them.
The score of a pair (i < j) of sightseeing spots is values[i] + values[j] + i - j: the sum of the values of the sightseeing spots, minus the distance between them.
Return the maximum score of a pair of sightseeing spots.
Examples
Constraints
2 <= values.length <= 5 * 10^4
1 <= values[i] <= 1000
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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