tvl-depot/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!")