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                "What if the problem was instead determining if you could generate a valid array with nums[index] == target?",
                "To generate the array, set nums[index] to target, nums[index-i] to target-i, and nums[index+i] to target-i. Then, this will give the minimum possible sum, so check if the sum is less than or equal to maxSum.",
                "n is too large to actually generate the array, so you can use the formula 1 + 2 + ... + n = n * (n+1) / 2 to quickly find the sum of nums[0...index] and nums[index...n-1].",
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