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Longest increasing subsequence

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OpenAICodingLast asked Oct 2026

Given a series of prices (or monthly profits, which may be zero or negative) in time order, return the length of the longest subsequence whose values strictly increase. Start with the quadratic dynamic program, then bring it down to O(n log n) with the patience-sorting array of smallest tails and binary search.

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