# Problem

Given an array of integers A, find the sum of min(B), where B ranges over every (contiguous) subarray of A.

Since the answer may be large, return the answer modulo 10^9 + 7.

Example 1:

Input: [3,1,2,4]
Output: 17
Explanation: Subarrays are [3], [1], [2], [4], [3,1], [1,2], [2,4], [3,1,2], [1,2,4], [3,1,2,4].
Minimums are 3, 1, 2, 4, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1.  Sum is 17.

Note:

1. 1 <= A.length <= 30000
2. 1 <= A[i] <= 30000

# Idea

1. order matters, unlike 花花酱 LeetCode 898. Bitwise ORs of Subarrays we can not sort the numbers in this problem.
1. e.g. sumSubarrayMins([3, 1, 2, 4]) !=sumSubarrayMins([1, 2, 3, 4]) since the first one will not have a subarray of [3,4].
2. For A[i], assuming there are L numbers that are greater than A[i] in range A[0] ~ A[i – 1], and there are R numbers that are greater or equal than A[i] in the range of A[i+1] ~ A[n – 1]. Thus A[i] will be the min of (L + 1) * (R + 1) subsequences.
1. e.g. A = [3,1,2,4], A[1] = 1, L = 1, R = 2, there are (1 + 1) * (2 + 1) = 6 subsequences are 1 is the min number. [3,1], [3,1,2], [3,1,2,4], [1], [1,2], [1,2,4]

# Solution 1: Brute Force

Time complexity: O(n^2)

Space complexity: O(1)

# Solution2 : Monotonic Stack

Time complexity: O(n)

Space complexity: O(n)

We can use a monotonic stack to compute left[i] and right[i] similar to 花花酱 LeetCode 901. Online Stock Span

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