feat(problems): add solution for Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

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121. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock
Difficulty: Easy
https://leetcode.com/problems/best-time-to-buy-and-sell-stock/
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You are given an array prices where prices[i] is the price of a given
stock on the i^th day.
You want to maximize your profit by choosing a single day to buy one
stock and choosing a different day in the future to sell that stock.
Return the maximum profit you can achieve from this transaction. If
you cannot achieve any profit, return 0.
Example 1:
Input: prices = [7,1,5,3,6,4]
Output: 5
Explanation: Buy on day 2 (price = 1) and sell on day 5 (price = 6),
profit = 6-1 = 5.
Note that buying on day 2 and selling on day 1 is not allowed because
you must buy before you sell.
Example 2:
Input: prices = [7,6,4,3,1]
Output: 0
Explanation: In this case, no transactions are done and the max
profit = 0.
Constraints:
• 1 <= prices.length <= 10^5
• 0 <= prices[i] <= 10^4
"""
class Solution:
def maxProfit(self, prices: List[int]) -> int:
left = min(prices)
for right in range(len(prices)):
while curr > left:
curr -= prices[left]
left += 1
ans = max(ans, curr)
return ans