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Maximum Product Subarray

Find the contiguous subarray within an array (containing at least one number) which has the largest product. For example, given the array [2,3,-2,4], the contiguous subarray [2,3] has the largest product = 6. Solution: Similar to  Maximum Subarray  which considers sum instead of product. The main difference is, the largest product could be a product of two negatives. Hence, besides maintaining a maximum product to the current pointer, we also need to record a minimum product to the current pointer.