Leetcode Problem 2412. Minimum Money Required Before Transactions

2412. Minimum Money Required Before Transactions

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Greedy Approach with Maximum Cost Tracking

  1. Initialize two variables, total_loss to 0 and max_cost to 0.
  2. Iterate through each transaction in the transactions list. a. Calculate the loss for the current transaction as cost - cashback. b. If the loss is positive, add it to total_loss. c. Update max_cost to be the maximum of itself and the minimum between the cost and the cashback of the current transaction.
  3. The minimum initial money required is the sum of total_loss and max_cost.
  4. Return the calculated minimum initial money.
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Binary Search for Minimum Initial Money

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