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		codygman on March 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On Secretly Terrible Engineers Oh cool, slices don't return index errors: `>>> print sum(sorted([])[-2:]) 0`

Luyt on March 9, 2015 [–]

Reading the original problem, "Write a function that returns the sum of the two largest numbers in an array", I took the liberty of assuming that the input list would always contain at least two items.

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