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Which Simplest-Correct?

CHALLENGE
Difficulty: advanced+25 XP

**Scenario.** n ≤ 5000, you need the maximum sum of a contiguous subarray. You see Kadane O(n) instantly. The safest professional move is: **Which approach is the best fit? The program only needs to print the letter.** **A)** Skip hand-tracing since Kadane is famous **B)** Hand-trace Kadane on an all-negative array before coding **C)** Code O(n^2) instead because it is safer **D)** Binary search the answer first

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