740. Delete and Earn

Medium

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Given an array nums of integers, you can perform operations on the array.

In each operation, you pick any nums[i] and delete it to earn nums[i] points. After, you must delete every element equal to nums[i] - 1 or nums[i] + 1.

You start with 0 points. Return the maximum number of points you can earn by applying such operations.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [3,4,2]
Output: 6
Explanation: Delete 4 to earn 4 points, consequently 3 is also deleted.
Then, delete 2 to earn 2 points.
6 total points are earned.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [2,2,3,3,3,4]
Output: 9
Explanation: Delete 3 to earn 3 points, deleting both 2's and the 4.
Then, delete 3 again to earn 3 points, and 3 again to earn 3 points.
9 total points are earned.

 

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 2 * 104
• 1 <= nums[i] <= 104