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An ant is on a boundary. It sometimes goes left and sometimes right.

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You are given an array of non-zero integers nums. The ant starts reading nums from the first element of it to its end. At each step, it moves according to the value of the current element:

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Return the number of times the ant returns to the boundary.

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Notes:

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Example 1:

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\nInput: nums = [2,3,-5]\nOutput: 1\nExplanation: After the first step, the ant is 2 steps to the right of the boundary.\nAfter the second step, the ant is 5 steps to the right of the boundary.\nAfter the third step, the ant is on the boundary.\nSo the answer is 1.\n
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Example 2:

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\nInput: nums = [3,2,-3,-4]\nOutput: 0\nExplanation: After the first step, the ant is 3 steps to the right of the boundary.\nAfter the second step, the ant is 5 steps to the right of the boundary.\nAfter the third step, the ant is 2 steps to the right of the boundary.\nAfter the fourth step, the ant is 2 steps to the left of the boundary.\nThe ant never returned to the boundary, so the answer is 0.\n
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