subtree(users/wpcarro): docking briefcase at '24f5a642' r/3226

git-subtree-dir: users/wpcarro
git-subtree-mainline: 464bbcb15c09813172c79820bcf526bb10cf4208
git-subtree-split: 24f5a642af3aa1627bbff977f0a101907a02c69f
Change-Id: I6105b3762b79126b3488359c95978cadb3efa789

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/users/wpcarro/scratch/facebook/largest-contiguous-sum.py b/users/wpcarro/scratch/facebook/largest-contiguous-sum.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7761bf1c61df
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+++ b/users/wpcarro/scratch/facebook/largest-contiguous-sum.py
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+def find_sum(xs):
+    result = float('-inf')
+    streak = 0
+    for x in xs:
+        result = max(result, streak, x)
+        if streak + x <= 0:
+            streak = x
+        else:
+            streak += x
+    return result
+
+
+x = [2,-8,3,-2,4,-10]
+assert find_sum(x) == 5
+print("Success!")