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because if you initialise to zero, if the max hourglass sum is negative then it will not overwrite the zero value. since 0 will be greater to any negative number. What I do is save the first hourglass sum as teh finalSum and update it when/if the next ones are bigger.
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why should we initialize max value to large negative value?
because if you initialise to zero, if the max hourglass sum is negative then it will not overwrite the zero value. since 0 will be greater to any negative number. What I do is save the first hourglass sum as teh finalSum and update it when/if the next ones are bigger.
what is the hour glass