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TODO 0011. Container With Most Water   medium

You are given an integer array height of length n. There are n vertical lines drawn such that the two endpoints of the i^{th} line are (i, 0) and (i, height[i]).

Find two lines that together with the x-axis form a container, such that the container contains the most water.

Return the maximum amount of water a container can store.

Notice that you may not slant the container.

Example 1:

Input: height = [1,8,6,2,5,4,8,3,7]
Output: 49
Explanation: The above vertical lines are represented by array [1,8,6,2,5,4,8,3,7]. In this case, the max area of water (blue section) the container can contain is 49.

Example 2:

Input: height = [1,1]
Output: 1

Constraints:

  • n == height.length
  • 2 <= n <= 10^{5}
  • 0 <= height[i] <= 10^{4}

TODO Approach

Write your approach here.

TODO Python

class Solution:
    def maxArea(self, height: List[int]) -> int:

TODO C++

class Solution {
public:
    int maxArea(vector<int>& height) {
        
    }
};