- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Array, Dynamic Programming, leetcode-1911, Greedy, O(n), O(1)
Problem
The alternating sum of a 0-indexed array is defined as the sum of the elements at even indices minus the sum of the elements at odd indices.
- For example, the alternating sum of
[4,2,5,3]
is(4 + 5) - (2 + 3) = 4
.
Given an array nums
, return the maximum alternating sum of any subsequence of nums
(after reindexing the elements of the subsequence).
A subsequence of an array is a new array generated from the original array by deleting some elements (possibly none) without changing the remaining elements' relative order. For example, [2,7,4]
is a subsequence of [4,2,3,7,2,1,4]
(the underlined elements), while [2,4,2]
is not.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [4,2,5,3] Output: 7 Explanation: It is optimal to choose the subsequence [4,2,5] with alternating sum (4 + 5) - 2 = 7.
Example 2:
Input: nums = [5,6,7,8] Output: 8 Explanation: It is optimal to choose the subsequence [8] with alternating sum 8.
Example 3:
Input: nums = [6,2,1,2,4,5] Output: 10 Explanation: It is optimal to choose the subsequence [6,1,5] with alternating sum (6 + 5) - 1 = 10.
Constraints:
1 <= nums.length <= 105
1 <= nums[i] <= 105