Amazon Online Assessment (OA) - Winning Sequence
Given the lower and upper bound of a range of integers, find the largest "mountain array". A mountain array is defined as in the Peak of mountain array problem, i.e. An array that
- has at least 3 elements
- let's call the element with the largest value the "peak", with index
k. The array elements monotonically increase from the first element toA[k], and then monotonically decreases fromA[k + 1]to the last element of the array. Thus creating a "mountain" of numbers.
If more tham one valid mountain arrays can be built from a given range of integers, the largest array is the one with the maximum values starting from the left side. For example, [6, 7, 6, 5] is larger than [5, 6, 7, 5] because first value is larger in the first array.
Return the largest mountain array satisfying the constraints, or -1 if it's not possible.
Examples
Example 1:
Input: num = 4, lowerEnd = 3, upperEnd = 10
Output: [9 10 9 8]
Example 2:
Input: num = 5, lowerEnd = 1, upperEnd = 3
Output: [1 2 3 2 1]
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Solution
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>>> a = [1, 2, 3]
>>> a[-1]
3