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Online Stock Span

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Design an algorithm that collects daily price quotes for some stock and returns the span of that stock's price for the current day.

The span of the stock's price today is defined as the maximum number of consecutive days (starting from today and going backward) for which the stock price was less than or equal to today's price.

  • For example, if the price of a stock over the next 7 days were [100, 80, 60, 70, 60, 75, 85], then the stock spans would be [1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 4, 6].

Implement the StockSpanner class:

  • StockSpanner() initializes the object of the class
  • int next(int price) returns the span of the stock's price given that today's price is price

Example

StockSpanner s = new StockSpanner();
s.next(100); // return 1
s.next(80);  // return 1
s.next(60);  // return 1
s.next(70);  // return 2 (70 >= 60)
s.next(60);  // return 1
s.next(75);  // return 4 (75 >= 60, 70, 60)
s.next(85);  // return 6 (85 >= all previous)

Constraints

  • 1 <= price <= 10⁵
  • At most 10⁴ calls will be made to next

How the tests work: each test is a sequence of calls. operations[i] is the method called with arguments[i]; the first entry constructs the class. The expected output lists what every call returns — null for the constructor and for methods that return nothing.

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List of test cases (10)
Case 1
operations = ["StockSpanner","next","next","next","next","next","next","next"]
arguments = [[],[100],[80],[60],[70],[60],[75],[85]]
Case 2
operations = ["StockSpanner","next"]
arguments = [[],[10]]
Case 3
operations = ["StockSpanner","next","next"]
arguments = [[],[10],[10]]
Case 4
operations = ["StockSpanner","next","next","next","next","next"]
arguments = [[],[5],[4],[3],[2],[1]]
Case 5
operations = ["StockSpanner","next","next","next","next","next"]
arguments = [[],[1],[2],[3],[4],[5]]
Case 6
operations = ["StockSpanner","next","next","next"]
arguments = [[],[3],[3],[3]]
Case 7
operations = ["StockSpanner","next","next","next","next","next"]
arguments = [[],[100],[1],[2],[3],[4]]
Case 8
operations = ["StockSpanner","next","next","next","next","next"]
arguments = [[],[5],[10],[8],[12],[3]]
Case 9
operations = ["StockSpanner","next","next","next","next","next","next"]
arguments = [[],[30],[40],[40],[30],[40],[50]]
Case 10
operations = ["StockSpanner","next","next","next","next","next","next","next","next","next","next"]
arguments = [[],[28],[14],[28],[35],[46],[53],[66],[80],[87],[88]]