notation - What does max over a summation of single term mean?

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Given the following max expression, what does it mean?

$\max_{j=1\ldots n} \left(\sum_{k=1}^{j} A_{\pi(k)} + \sum_{k=j}^{n} B_{\pi(k)}\right).$

Here

$\sum_{k=1}^{j} A_{\pi(k)}$

and

$\sum_{k=j}^{n} B_{\pi(k)}$

are both integers.

What is the meaning of max(A+B)? Why would you do a max over a single term?

A max of multiple terms makes sense but why do it over a single term?