Maximum Subarray

Greedy & Intervals, problem 2 of 8

Maximum Subarray

Medium

LC #53

kadanegreedydynamic programming

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Given an integer array nums, return the largest sum of any non-empty contiguous subarray.

Example 1

Input: nums = [-2,1,-3,4,-1,2,1,-5,4]
Output: 6

The subarray [4,-1,2,1] sums to 6.

Example 2

Input: nums = [1]
Output: 1

Example 3

Input: nums = [5,4,-1,7,8]
Output: 23

The whole array.

Constraints

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 10^5
  • -10^4 <= nums[i] <= 10^4

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