两种解法。
我想到的是最大的矩形,中间一定有个最矮的某个单位矩形,所以用两个数组记录histogram[i]左右两边第一个比它小的单位矩形的序号leftLowerId[i]和rightLowerId[i],那么对于histogram[i],它自己的最大矩形面积就是(rightLowerId[i] - leftLowerId[i] - 1) * histogram[i]。
这里找leftLowerId和rightLowerId的时候用DP加速。以rightLowerId为例,找到右边比histogram[i]矮的矩形,停止,遇到比histogram[i]高的矩形j,直接跳到比histogram[j]矮的矩形rightLowerId[j].
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
//the histogram stored from left to right
long histogram[100001];
int rightLowerId[100001];
int leftLowerId[100001];
//from right to left
void FindRightSideLowerRec(int n)
{
	rightLowerId[n - 1] = n; // there is no rectangle on its right
	for (int i = n - 2; i >= 0; i--){
		int cid = i + 1;
		while (histogram[cid] >= histogram[i] && cid < n){
			cid = rightLowerId[cid]; // the key
		}
		rightLowerId[i] = cid;
	}
}
//from left to right
void FindLeftSideLowerRec(int n)
{
	leftLowerId[0] = -1; // there is no rectangle on its left
	for (int i = 1; i < n; i++){
		int cid = i - 1;
		while (histogram[cid] >= histogram[i] && cid > -1){
			cid = leftLowerId[cid]; // the key
		}
		leftLowerId[i] = cid;
	}
}
long long CalLargestRectangle(int n)
{
	long long largestArea = 0;
	for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
	{
		long long width = rightLowerId[i] - leftLowerId[i] - 1;
		long long height = histogram[i];
		long long area = width * height;
		if (area > largestArea)
			largestArea = area;
	}
	return largestArea;
}
int main()
{
	int n;
	while (scanf("%d", &n)){
		if (n == 0)
			return 0;
		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
		{
			scanf("%d", &histogram[i]);
		}
		FindRightSideLowerRec(n); 
		FindLeftSideLowerRec(n);
		long long larea = CalLargestRectangle(n);
		printf("%I64d\n", larea);
	}
}原文:http://blog.csdn.net/tspatial_thunder/article/details/25253207