Leetcode Problem 2016. Maximum Difference Between Increasing Elements

2016. Maximum Difference Between Increasing Elements

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Brute Force Approach

  1. Initialize a variable maxDiff to -1 to keep track of the maximum difference.
  2. Use a nested loop where the outer loop variable i goes from 0 to n-2 and the inner loop variable j goes from i+1 to n-1.
  3. Inside the inner loop, check if nums[i] < nums[j].
  4. If the condition is true, calculate the difference nums[j] - nums[i].
  5. Update maxDiff if the calculated difference is greater than the current maxDiff.
  6. After the loops, return maxDiff if it's not -1, otherwise return -1.
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