I-1 becomes negative in first iteration

#1

In the video, to calculate curSum = cumSum[j] - cumSum[i-1]. In first iteration of loop i-1 is negative then how does it work

#2

@Aditya.Jethliya in many compiler a[-1] is taken as 0 but it will always give runtime on online competitions so check that separately

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