Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock III

Say you have an array for which the ith element is the price of a given stock on day i.

Design an algorithm to find the maximum profit. You may complete at most two transactions.

Note: You may not engage in multiple transactions at the same time (i.e., you must sell the stock before you buy again).

Example 1:

Input: [3,3,5,0,0,3,1,4]
Output: 6
Explanation: Buy on day 4 (price = 0) and sell on day 6 (price = 3), profit = 3-0 = 3.
             Then buy on day 7 (price = 1) and sell on day 8 (price = 4), profit = 4-1 = 3.

Example 2:

Input: [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: 4
Explanation: Buy on day 1 (price = 1) and sell on day 5 (price = 5), profit = 5-1 = 4.
             Note that you cannot buy on day 1, buy on day 2 and sell them later, as you are
             engaging multiple transactions at the same time. You must sell before buying again.

Example 3:

Input: [7,6,4,3,1]
Output: 0
Explanation: In this case, no transaction is done, i.e. max profit = 0.

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需要两个递推公式来分别更新两个变量local和global， 可以求至少k次交易的最大利润，找到通解后可以设定 k = 2，即为本题的解答。

定义local[i][j]为在到达第i天时最多可进行j次交易并且最后一次交易在最后一天卖出的最大利润，此为局部最优。

定义global[i][j]为在到达第i天时最多可进行j次交易的最大利润，此为全局最优。它们的递推式为：

local[i][j] = max(global[i - 1][j - 1] + max(diff, 0), local[i - 1][j] + diff)

global[i][j] = max(local[i][j], global[i - 1][j])

其中局部最优值是比较前一天并少交易一次的全局最优加上大于0的差值，和前一天的局部最优加上差值中取较大值，

而全局最优比较局部最优和前一天的全局最优。

class Solution {
public:
    int maxProfit(vector<int>& prices) {
        if (prices.empty()) 
            return 0;
        int n = prices.size(), g[n][3] = {0}, l[n][3] = {0};
        for (int i = 1; i < prices.size(); ++i) {
            int diff = prices[i] - prices[i - 1];
            for (int j = 1; j <= 2; ++j) {
                l[i][j] = max(g[i - 1][j - 1] + max(diff, 0), l[i - 1][j] + diff);
                g[i][j] = max(l[i][j], g[i - 1][j]);
            }
        }
        return g[n - 1][2];
    }
};