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Container with most water

You are given an integer array height of length n. There are n vertical lines drawn such that the two endpoints of the ith line are (i, 0) and (i, height[i]).

Find two lines that together with the x-axis form a container, such that the container contains the most water.

Return the maximum amount of water a container can store.

Notice that you may not slant the container.

function maxWater(arr) {
let max = 0;
let left = 0;
let right = arr.length - 1;

while (left < right) {
const h1 = arr[left];
const h2 = arr[right];
const minHeight = Math.min(h1, h2);
const width = right - left;
const area = minHeight * width;

max = Math.max(max, area);

if (h1 < h2) {
left++;
} else {
right--;
}
}
return max;
}

const arr = [1,8,6,2,5,4,8,3,7];
console.log(maxWater(arr));