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I like parentheticals (a lot).

"Sometimes (when I nest them (my parentheticals) too much (like this (and this))) they get confusing."

Write a function that, given a sentence like the one above, along with the position of an opening parenthesis, finds the corresponding closing parenthesis.

Example: if the example string above is input with the number 10 (position of the first parenthesis), the output should be 79 (position of the last parenthesis).

We can do this in time.

We can do this in additional space.

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time, where n is the number of chars in the string. space.

The for loop with xrange keeps our space cost at . It might be more Pythonic to use:

for char in sentence[position:]:

but then our space cost would be , because in the worst case position would be 0 and we'd take a slice of the entire input.

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