LeetCode 896, Easy. Topics: Array. View on LeetCode.
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Problem
An array is <strong>monotonic</strong> if it is either monotone increasing or monotone decreasing.</p>
<p>An array <code>nums</code> is monotone increasing if for all <code>i <= j</code>, <code>nums[i] <= nums[j]</code>. An array <code>nums</code> is monotone decreasing if for all <code>i <= j</code>, <code>nums[i] >= nums[j]</code>.</p>
<p>Given an integer array <code>nums</code>, return <code>true</code> <em>if the given array is monotonic, or</em> <code>false</code> <em>otherwise</em>.</p>
Examples
Constraints
- 1 <= nums.length <= 10^5
- -10^5 <= nums[i] <= 10^5
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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