An array is given, find length of the subarray having maximum sum.
Examples :
Input : a[] = {1, -2, 1, 1, -2, 1} Output : Length of the subarray is 2 Explanation: Subarray with consecutive elements and maximum sum will be {1, 1}. So length is 2 Input : ar[] = { -2, -3, 4, -1, -2, 1, 5, -3 } Output : Length of the subarray is 5 Explanation: Subarray with consecutive elements and maximum sum will be {4, -1, -2, 1, 5}.
This problem is mainly a variation of Largest Sum Contiguous Subarray Problem.
The idea is to update starting index whenever sum ending here becomes less than 0.
Javascript
<script> // JavaScript program to print length // of the largest contiguous array sum function maxSubArraySum(a, size) { let max_so_far = Number.MIN_VALUE, max_ending_here = 0,start = 0, end = 0, s = 0; for (let i = 0; i < size; i++) { max_ending_here += a[i]; if (max_so_far < max_ending_here) { max_so_far = max_ending_here; start = s; end = i; } if (max_ending_here < 0) { max_ending_here = 0; s = i + 1; } } return (end - start + 1); } // Driver code let a = [ -2, -3, 4, -1, -2, 1, 5, -3 ]; let n = a.length; document.write(maxSubArraySum(a, n)); // This code is contributed by splevel62 </script> |
5
Time Complexity: O(N) where N is size of the input array. This is because a for loop is executing from 1 to size of the array.
Space Complexity: O(1) as no extra space has been used.
Please refer complete article on Size of The Subarray With Maximum Sum for more details!
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