Stack pattern

Daily Temperatures

Given an array of daily temperatures, return an array where each entry is the number of days you must wait after that day to encounter a warmer temperature. Use 0 if no warmer day ever follows. Watch it run step by step, then write your own pseudocode and get it checked by AI.

  • LeetCode 739
  • Medium
  • 2 approaches

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StackLeetCode 739

Medium

From the first idea to the best one

  1. 01 Brute force · scan right from every day O(n²)O(1) space
  2. 02 Optimized · monotonic stack of waiting days O(n)O(n) space
Each approach plays step by step, with its time and space.

What you will learn

  • How to read Daily Temperatures and spot the stack pattern in it
  • Brute force · scan right from every day: O(n²) time, O(1) space
  • Optimized · monotonic stack of waiting days: O(n) time, O(n) space
  • The pseudocode for each approach, its line lit as the animation runs
  • Practice: write your own pseudocode and get it checked

More Stack

See Daily Temperatures run, step by step

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DSA comes with the all labs plan and every ChaiCode batch.