The challenge

Given a sequence of numbers, find the largest pair sum in the sequence.

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[10, 14, 2, 23, 19] -->  42 (= 23 + 19)
[99, 2, 2, 23, 19]  --> 122 (= 99 + 23)

Input sequence contains minimum two elements and every element is an integer.

The solution in Python code

Option 1:

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def largest_pair_sum(numbers):
    return sum(sorted(numbers)[-2:])

Option 2:

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def largest_pair_sum(numbers):
    max1 = max(numbers)
    numbers.remove(max1)
    max2 = max(numbers)
    return max1 + max2

Option 3:

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def largest_pair_sum(num):
    return num.pop(num.index(max(num))) + max(num)

Test cases to validate our solution

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import test
from solution import largest_pair_sum

@test.describe("Fixed Tests")
def fixed_tests():
    @test.it('Basic Test Cases')
    def basic_test_cases():
        test.assert_equals(largest_pair_sum([10,14,2,23,19]), 42)
        test.assert_equals(largest_pair_sum([-100,-29,-24,-19,19]), 0)
        test.assert_equals(largest_pair_sum([1,2,3,4,6,-1,2]), 10)
        test.assert_equals(largest_pair_sum([-10, -8, -16, -18, -19]), -18)