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[Solved] Given an array of integers heights representing the histogram’s bar height where the width of each bar is 1, return the area of the largest rectangle in the histogram.

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Given an array of integers heights representing the histogram’s bar height where the width of each bar is 1, return the area of the largest rectangle in the histogram.

Example 1:

Input: heights = [2,1,5,6,2,3]
Output: 10
Explanation: The above is a histogram where width of each bar is 1.
The largest rectangle is shown in the red area, which has an area = 10 units.

Example 2:

Input: heights = [2,4]
Output: 4

Constraints:

Python Solution

class Solution:
    def largestRectangleArea(self, A: List[int]) -> int:
        stack = []
        maxi = 0
        i = 0
        while i<len(A):
            if len(stack)==0 or A[stack[-1]]<=A[i]:
                stack.append(i)
                i+=1
            else:
                top = stack.pop()
                if len(stack)==0:
                    ar = A[top]*(i)
                else:
                    ar = A[top]*(i-stack[-1]-1)
                maxi = max(maxi,ar)

        while len(stack)!=0:
            top = stack.pop()
            if len(stack)==0:
                ar = A[top]*(i)
            else:
                ar = A[top]*(i-stack[-1]-1)
            maxi = max(maxi,ar)

        return(maxi)
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