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If the sums of hourglasses are all negative , and if u have taken your max variable initilized to zero and calculate the max with refrence to 0 obviously you will be returning 0 as the answer which is wrong . So its better to initilize with Integer.MIN_VALUE to a variable to which will be storing a max value .
Or initialize it to any value less than -63, because the input values of the array ranges from -9 to +9. So a hour glass can contain a maximum of 7 times -9, which sums up to -63. Any value greater than -64 can be accepted to swap the max variable, right!
Or initialize it to any value less than -63, because the input values of the array ranges from -9 to +9. So a hour glass can contain a maximum of 7 times -9, which sums up to -63. Any value greater than -64 can be accepted to swap the max variable, right!
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It passed the testcases but why it doesn't runs when initialized to zero?
If the sums of hourglasses are all negative , and if u have taken your max variable initilized to zero and calculate the max with refrence to 0 obviously you will be returning 0 as the answer which is wrong . So its better to initilize with Integer.MIN_VALUE to a variable to which will be storing a max value .
thanks mate... helped a lot!!!
Or initialize it to any value less than -63, because the input values of the array ranges from -9 to +9. So a hour glass can contain a maximum of 7 times -9, which sums up to -63. Any value greater than -64 can be accepted to swap the max variable, right!
HotIce! Try this man!
Actually, -63 will work too.
Or initialize it to any value less than -63, because the input values of the array ranges from -9 to +9. So a hour glass can contain a maximum of 7 times -9, which sums up to -63. Any value greater than -64 can be accepted to swap the max variable, right!
HotIce!
Taking max value as integer.MIN_VALUE is also correct however max can also be sumArray[0] (the array of sum of hourglasses) .
Thanks ! That helped.
Zero is considered to be a positive number. If all the hour glasse's totals are negative they wont beat your zero.
Even if some of them are zero they won't beat that zero.