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In this tutorial, I am going to discuss a very famous interview problem find maximum subarray sum (Kadane’s algorithm).

Given an integer array of N elements, find the maximum sum contiguous subarray (containing at least one element).

For example –

Example 1 –

Input: { 1, 2, -5, 4, 3, 8 , 5 }

Output: 20

The maximum sum of a sub–array in this array is 20.  And the sub–array is (4, 3, 8, 5).

Example 2 –

Input: {-2, -1}

Output: -1

Example 3 –

Input: { 1, -3, 2, -5, 7, 6, -1, -4, 11, -23}

Output: 19

The largest sum contiguous subarray  in this array is 19 ( 7, 6, -1, -4, 11).

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