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CodingMediumcod-g368
Subject RecursionLevel Mid–Senior~25 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

A string is an additive number if its digits can be split into at least three non-negative integers where every number after the first two equals the sum of the two preceding ones. Numbers in the sequence may not have a leading zero (so '0' alone is fine but '03' is not). Given a string num of digits (length 1..35), return whether it is an additive number. Return a boolean.

Implement
is_additive_number(num: str) → bool
Examples
in["112358"]outtrue
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