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Problem 15. Find the longest sequence of 1's in a binary sequence.

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Given a string such as

 s = '011110010000000100010111'

find the length of the longest string of consecutive 1's. In this example, the answer would be 4.

Example:

 Input  x = '110100111'
 Output y is 3
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39.41% Correct | 60.59% Incorrect
Last Solution submitted on Mar 28, 2025

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