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diff --git a/queue/elementarypriority.go b/queue/elementarypriority.go
index 391d948..9cb9e54 100644
--- a/queue/elementarypriority.go
+++ b/queue/elementarypriority.go
@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ func (q *ElementaryPriority[T]) Clear() {
}
func (q *ElementaryPriority[T]) max() (ind int, max T) {
+ // Seed from the first element, not the zero value of T: for a queue holding
+ // only negative values nothing is greater than 0, so a zero seed would
+ // wrongly report index 0 / value 0 (an element not even in the queue).
+ if len(q.a) == 0 {
+ return 0, 0
+ }
+ ind, max = 0, q.a[0]
for i, a := range q.a {
if a > max {
ind, max = i, a