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Container With Most Water

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height[i] is the height of a vertical line at position i. Pick two lines that, together with the x-axis, hold the most water. Return that amount.

[1, 8, 6, 2, 5, 4, 8, 3, 7] → 49 (lines at 1 and 8: width 7 × height 7).

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Python
def max_area(height):
    pass

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