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You are given a 0-indexed integer array nums
having length n
.
You are allowed to perform a special move any number of times (including zero) on nums
. In one special move you perform the following steps in order:
i
in the range [0, n - 1]
, and a positive integer x
.|nums[i] - x|
to the total cost.nums[i]
to x
.A palindromic number is a positive integer that remains the same when its digits are reversed. For example, 121
, 2552
and 65756
are palindromic numbers whereas 24
, 46
, 235
are not palindromic numbers.
An array is considered equalindromic if all the elements in the array are equal to an integer y
, where y
is a palindromic number less than 109
.
Return an integer denoting the minimum possible total cost to make nums
equalindromic by performing any number of special moves.
\n
Example 1:
\n\n\nInput: nums = [1,2,3,4,5]\nOutput: 6\nExplanation: We can make the array equalindromic by changing all elements to 3 which is a palindromic number. The cost of changing the array to [3,3,3,3,3] using 4 special moves is given by |1 - 3| + |2 - 3| + |4 - 3| + |5 - 3| = 6.\nIt can be shown that changing all elements to any palindromic number other than 3 cannot be achieved at a lower cost.\n\n\n
Example 2:
\n\n\nInput: nums = [10,12,13,14,15]\nOutput: 11\nExplanation: We can make the array equalindromic by changing all elements to 11 which is a palindromic number. The cost of changing the array to [11,11,11,11,11] using 5 special moves is given by |10 - 11| + |12 - 11| + |13 - 11| + |14 - 11| + |15 - 11| = 11.\nIt can be shown that changing all elements to any palindromic number other than 11 cannot be achieved at a lower cost.\n\n\n
Example 3:
\n\n\nInput: nums = [22,33,22,33,22]\nOutput: 22\nExplanation: We can make the array equalindromic by changing all elements to 22 which is a palindromic number. The cost of changing the array to [22,22,22,22,22] using 2 special moves is given by |33 - 22| + |33 - 22| = 22.\nIt can be shown that changing all elements to any palindromic number other than 22 cannot be achieved at a lower cost.\n\n\n
\n
Constraints:
\n\n1 <= n <= 105
1 <= nums[i] <= 109
nums
after sorting it (if the length is even, we can select any number from the two in the middle). Let’s call it m
.",
"Try the smallest palindromic number that is larger than or equal to m
(if any) and the largest palindromic number that is smaller than or equal to m
(if any). These two values are the candidate palindromic numbers for values of all indices.",
"We can use math constructions to construct the two palindromic numbers in O(log(m) / 2)
time or we can do it using brute-force by starting from m and checking smaller and larger values in O(sqrt(10log(m)))
.",
"It is also possible to just generate all palindromic numbers using recursion in O(sqrt(109))
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