Background
A problem that is simple to solve in one dimension is often much more difficult to solve in more than one dimension. Consider satisfying a boolean expression in conjunctive normal form in which each conjunct consists of exactly 3 disjuncts. This problem (3-SAT) is NP-complete. The problem 2-SAT is solved quite efficiently, however. In contrast, some problems belong to the same complexity class regardless of the dimensionality of the problem.
The Problem
Given a 2-dimensional array of positive and negative integers, find the sub-rectangle with the largest sum. The sum of a rectangle is the sum of all the elements in that rectangle. In this problem the sub-rectangle with the largest sum is referred to as the maximal sub-rectangle. A sub-rectangle is any contiguous sub-array of size or greater located within the whole array. As an example, the maximal sub-rectangle of the array:
is in the lower-left-hand corner:
and has the sum of 15.
Input and Output
The input consists of an array of integers. The input begins with a single positive integer N on a line by itself indicating the size of the square two dimensional array. This is followed by
integers separated by white-space (newlines and spaces). These
integers make up the array in row-major order (i.e., all numbers on the first row, left-to-right, then all numbers on the second row, left-to-right, etc.). N may be as large as 100. The numbers in the array will be in the range [-127, 127].
The output is the sum of the maximal sub-rectangle.
Sample Input
4
0 -2 -7 0 9 2 -6 2
-4 1 -4 1 -1
8 0 -2
Sample Output
15
<span style="font-size:14px;">#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
int a[110][110];
int s[110];
int max1d(int s1[],int n){
int sum=0,max_sum=-1e9;
for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
if(sum>=0)
sum+=s1[i];
else sum=s1[i];
if(sum>max_sum)
max_sum=sum;
}
return max_sum;
}
int main(){
int n;
scanf("%d",&n);
for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
for(int j=0;j<n;j++)
scanf("%d",&a[i][j]);
}
int max_sum=-1e9;
for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
memset(s,0,sizeof(s));
for(int j=i;j<n;j++){
for(int k=0;k<n;k++)
s[k]+=a[j][k];
int sum=max1d(s,n);
if(sum>max_sum)
max_sum=sum;
}
}
printf("%d\n",max_sum);
}
</span>