LeetCode — Maximum sum of an hourglass (Weekly contest)

Steven Lu
1 min readOct 2, 2022

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You are given an m x n integer matrix grid.

We define an hourglass as a part of the matrix with the following form:

Return the maximum sum of the elements of an hourglass.

Note that an hourglass cannot be rotated and must be entirely contained within the matrix.

Example 1:

Input: grid = [[6,2,1,3],[4,2,1,5],[9,2,8,7],[4,1,2,9]]
Output: 30
Explanation: The cells shown above represent the hourglass with the maximum sum: 6 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 9 + 2 + 8 = 30.

Example 2:

Input: grid = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]]
Output: 35
Explanation: There is only one hourglass in the matrix, with the sum: 1 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 35.

Constraints:

  • m == grid.length
  • n == grid[i].length
  • 3 <= m, n <= 150
  • 0 <= grid[i][j] <= 106

Solution:

Time complexity: O(N²)

Space complexity: O(N²)

LeetCode — Maximum sum of an hourglass

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