LC 11

Container With Most Water

Medium · LC 1–100

arraygreedytwo-pointers
Free

Candidate solution routes

Primary

Opposite-Direction Two Pointers

Free

Invariant: Every uneliminated pair uses endpoints inside [l,r]; a moved endpoint is proven unable to pair with any remaining opposite endpoint to satisfy the goal.

candidate confidence: 0.517 · metadata_only

Alternate 1

Exchange-argument greedy ordering

Free

Invariant: The greedy prefix has no local inversion, and at least one global optimum agrees with that entire prefix.

candidate confidence: 0.623 · metadata_only

Alternate 2

Same-Direction / Read-Write Pointers

Free

Invariant: After processing a[0:read], a[0:write] is exactly its correct stable filtered output, with write no farther than read+1.

candidate confidence: 0.434 · metadata_only

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