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Discussion on: Daily Challenge #228 - Best Profit in Single Sale

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Craig McIlwrath

Simple Haskell solution. Uses the property that the maximum difference of two items in a list will be the difference between the maximum and minimum elements.

maxProfit :: (Ord a, Num a) => [a] -> a
maxProfit [] = 0
maxProfit xs = maximum xs - minimum xs
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Andreas Jakof

If max comes before min, then this solution would show a wrong result.

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Craig McIlwrath

Oh, I misunderstood the challenge. Didn't notice that order requirement.

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Andreas Jakof

Donβ€˜t worry... just wanted to point out to you, that you are not done yet. 😬
Keep at it