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2D Array - DS

  • chadwalt + 3 comments

    Hey awesome solution, just a quick question why use -Infinity

    • MoBotan + 0 comments

      You can't set the initial value of 'total' to 0, because the answer might be lower. To avoid that, set the initial value to the lowest possible (-infinity).

      The smallest number allowable for any of the numbers in the hourglass is -9. If all the numbers in an hourglass are -9, the lowest possible value for an hourglass is -63. So an initial value of -63 is ok too.

    • gacevic_danilo + 0 comments

      you can also use -64 since the lowest possible value is -63 :)

    • k_klapczynski + 0 comments

      I think more general and better solution is to declare maxSum outside of loop and then after calculating sum add:

      // on first iteration save sum to compare
if (y === 0 && x === 0) maxSum = sum;

      This sets maxSum to first calculated sum, whatever it is.