""" author : Mayank Kumar Jha (mk9440) """ from typing import List def find_max_sub_array(A, low, high): if low == high: return low, high, A[low] else: mid = (low + high) // 2 left_low, left_high, left_sum = find_max_sub_array(A, low, mid) right_low, right_high, right_sum = find_max_sub_array(A, mid + 1, high) cross_left, cross_right, cross_sum = find_max_cross_sum(A, low, mid, high) if left_sum >= right_sum and left_sum >= cross_sum: return left_low, left_high, left_sum elif right_sum >= left_sum and right_sum >= cross_sum: return right_low, right_high, right_sum else: return cross_left, cross_right, cross_sum def find_max_cross_sum(A, low, mid, high): left_sum, max_left = -999999999, -1 right_sum, max_right = -999999999, -1 summ = 0 for i in range(mid, low - 1, -1): summ += A[i] if summ > left_sum: left_sum = summ max_left = i summ = 0 for i in range(mid + 1, high + 1): summ += A[i] if summ > right_sum: right_sum = summ max_right = i return max_left, max_right, (left_sum + right_sum) def max_sub_array(nums: List[int]) -> int: """ Finds the contiguous subarray which has the largest sum and return its sum. >>> max_sub_array([-2, 1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1, -5, 4]) 6 An empty (sub)array has sum 0. >>> max_sub_array([]) 0 If all elements are negative, the largest subarray would be the empty array, having the sum 0. >>> max_sub_array([-1, -2, -3]) 0 >>> max_sub_array([5, -2, -3]) 5 >>> max_sub_array([31, -41, 59, 26, -53, 58, 97, -93, -23, 84]) 187 """ best = 0 current = 0 for i in nums: current += i if current < 0: current = 0 best = max(best, current) return best if __name__ == "__main__": """ A random simulation of this algorithm. """ import time from random import randint from matplotlib import pyplot as plt inputs = [10, 100, 1000, 10000, 50000, 100000, 200000, 300000, 400000, 500000] tim = [] for i in inputs: li = [randint(1, i) for j in range(i)] strt = time.time() (find_max_sub_array(li, 0, len(li) - 1)) end = time.time() tim.append(end - strt) print("No of Inputs Time Taken") for i in range(len(inputs)): print(inputs[i], "\t\t", tim[i]) plt.plot(inputs, tim) plt.xlabel("Number of Inputs") plt.ylabel("Time taken in seconds ") plt.show()