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This one has lots of possibilities, and it's really testing whether you can explore them systematically. Interviewers love it because it reveals your structured exploration and your edge-case discipline. The gotcha is duplicates and dead ends—good pruning and ordering rules make this manageable.

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Monotonic Stacks

A monotonic stack maintains elements in sorted order, popping when a new element breaks the invariant. It solves "next greater element," "daily temperatures," and histogram problems in O(n) instead of O(n²).

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