text: Largest area possible after removal of a series of horizontal & vertical bars | Function to find the largest area when a series of horizontal & vertical bars are removed ; Stores all bars ; Insert horizontal bars ; Insert vertictal bars ; Remove horizontal separators from s1 ; Remove vertical separators from s2 ; Stores left out horizontal and vertical separators ; Sort both list in ascending order ; Find maximum difference of neighbors of list1 ; Find max difference of neighbors of list2 ; Print largest volume ; Driver code ; Given value of N & M ; Given arrays ; Function call to find the largest area when a series of horizontal & vertical bars are removed
code: def largestArea ( N , M , H , V , h , v ) : NEW_LINE INDENT s1 = set ( [ ] ) ; NEW_LINE s2 = set ( [ ] ) ; NEW_LINE for i in range ( 1 , N + 2 ) : NEW_LINE INDENT s1 . add ( i ) ; NEW_LINE DEDENT for i in range ( 1 , M + 2 ) : NEW_LINE INDENT s2 . add ( i ) ; NEW_LINE DEDENT for i in range ( h ) : NEW_LINE INDENT s1 . remove ( H [ i ] ) ; NEW_LINE DEDENT for i in range ( v ) : NEW_LINE INDENT s2 . remove ( V [ i ] ) ; NEW_LINE DEDENT list1 = [ 0 ] * len ( s1 ) NEW_LINE list2 = [ 0 ] * len ( s2 ) ; NEW_LINE i = 0 ; NEW_LINE for it1 in s1 : NEW_LINE INDENT list1 [ i ] = it1 ; NEW_LINE i += 1 NEW_LINE DEDENT i = 0 ; NEW_LINE for it2 in s2 : NEW_LINE INDENT list2 [ i ] = it2 NEW_LINE i += 1 NEW_LINE DEDENT list1 . sort ( ) ; NEW_LINE list2 . sort ( ) ; NEW_LINE maxH = 0 NEW_LINE p1 = 0 NEW_LINE maxV = 0 NEW_LINE p2 = 0 ; NEW_LINE for j in range ( len ( s1 ) ) : NEW_LINE INDENT maxH = max ( maxH , list1 [ j ] - p1 ) ; NEW_LINE p1 = list1 [ j ] ; NEW_LINE DEDENT for j in range ( len ( s2 ) ) : NEW_LINE INDENT maxV = max ( maxV , list2 [ j ] - p2 ) ; NEW_LINE p2 = list2 [ j ] ; NEW_LINE DEDENT print ( ( maxV * maxH ) ) NEW_LINE DEDENT if __name__ == " _ _ main _ _ " : NEW_LINE INDENT N = 3 NEW_LINE M = 3 ; NEW_LINE H = [ 2 ] NEW_LINE V = [ 2 ] ; NEW_LINE h = len ( H ) NEW_LINE v = len ( V ) ; NEW_LINE largestArea ( N , M , H , V , h , v ) ; NEW_LINE DEDENT