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738. Monotone Increasing Digits (Medium)

Given a non-negative integer N, find the largest number that is less than or equal to N with monotone increasing digits.

(Recall that an integer has monotone increasing digits if and only if each pair of adjacent digits x and y satisfy x <= y.)

Example 1:

Input: N = 10
Output: 9

Example 2:

Input: N = 1234
Output: 1234

Example 3:

Input: N = 332
Output: 299

Note: N is an integer in the range [0, 10^9].

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Hints

Hint 1

Build the answer digit by digit, adding the largest possible one that would make the number still less than or equal to N.