Solution: Minimum Operations to Make All Array Elements Equal
Understand how to efficiently calculate the minimum number of operations required to make all elements in an array equal to given query values. Explore techniques such as sorting, prefix sums, and binary search to optimize computations across multiple queries, and grasp how to balance time and space complexity in your solutions.
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Statement
You are given an array, nums, consisting of positive integers of size n and another array queries of size m. For each query queries, the goal is to make all elements of nums equal to queries[i]. To achieve this, you can perform the following operation any number of times:
Increase or decrease an element of
numsby 1.
Return an array answer of size m, where answer[i] is the minimum number of operations needed to make all elements of nums equal to queries[i]. After processing each query, the nums array is reset to its original state.
Constraints
nnums.lengthm...