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# 1685. Sum of Absolute Differences in a Sorted Array

Medium

## Description

You are given an integer array nums sorted in non-decreasing order.

Build and return an integer array result with the same length as nums such that result[i] is equal to the summation of absolute differences between nums[i] and all the other elements in the array.

In other words, result[i] is equal to sum(|nums[i]-nums[j]|) where 0 <= j < nums.length and j != i (0-indexed).

Example 1:

Input: nums = [2,3,5]

Output: [4,3,5]

Explanation: Assuming the arrays are 0-indexed, then

 result[0] = 2-2 + 2-3 + 2-5 = 0 + 1 + 3 = 4,
 result[1] = 3-2 + 3-3 + 3-5 = 1 + 0 + 2 = 3,
 result[2] = 5-2 + 5-3 + 5-5 = 3 + 2 + 0 = 5.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [1,4,6,8,10]

Output: [24,15,13,15,21]

Constraints:

• 2 <= nums.length <= 10^5
• 1 <= nums[i] <= nums[i + 1] <= 10^4

## Solution

Let n be the length of nums. Create two arrays leftDifferences and rightDifferences that both have length n. Calculate leftDifferences[0] as the sum of absolute differences between nums[0] and all the other elements in nums. For i from 1 to n - 1, let difference = nums[i] - nums[i - 1] and calculate leftDifferences[i] = leftDifferences[i - 1] - difference - difference * (n - 1 - i). Calculate rightDifferences[n - 1] as the sum of absolute differences between nums[n - 1] and all the other elements in nums. For i from n - 2 to 0, let difference = nums[i + 1] - nums[i] and calculate rightDifferences[i] = rightDifferences[i + 1] - difference - difference * i. For the array result, there is result[i] = leftDifferences[i] + rightDifferences[i] for all 0 <= i < n. Finally, return result.

class Solution {
public int[] getSumAbsoluteDifferences(int[] nums) {
int length = nums.length;
int[] leftDifferences = new int[length];
for (int i = 1; i < length; i++)
leftDifferences[0] += nums[i] - nums[0];
for (int i = 1; i < length; i++) {
int difference = nums[i] - nums[i - 1];
leftDifferences[i] = leftDifferences[i - 1] - difference - difference * (length - 1 - i);
}
int[] rightDifferences = new int[length];
for (int i = length - 2; i >= 0; i--)
rightDifferences[length - 1] += nums[length - 1] - nums[i];
for (int i = length - 2; i >= 0; i--) {
int difference = nums[i + 1] - nums[i];
rightDifferences[i] = rightDifferences[i + 1] - difference - difference * i;
}
int[] differences = new int[length];
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
differences[i] = leftDifferences[i] + rightDifferences[i];
return differences;
}
}