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Maximum Rectangle Sum — Solution & Editorial

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Fix a top and bottom row pair, collapse the columns between them into a 1-D array of column sums, and run Kadane's maximum-subarray on it. O(N²M) total.

Complexity: O(N2 M)

Watch out: All-negative grids: never clamp Kadane at 0 — the answer is the least-negative single cell.