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Abhishek Chaudhary
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Minimum Absolute Difference

Given an array of distinct integers arr, find all pairs of elements with the minimum absolute difference of any two elements.

Return a list of pairs in ascending order(with respect to pairs), each pair [a, b] follows

  • a, b are from arr
  • a < b
  • b - a equals to the minimum absolute difference of any two elements in arr

Example 1:

Input: arr = [4,2,1,3]
Output: [[1,2],[2,3],[3,4]]
Explanation: The minimum absolute difference is 1. List all pairs with difference equal to 1 in ascending order.

Example 2:

Input: arr = [1,3,6,10,15]
Output: [[1,3]]

Example 3:

Input: arr = [3,8,-10,23,19,-4,-14,27]
Output: [[-14,-10],[19,23],[23,27]]

Constraints:

  • 2 <= arr.length <= 105
  • -106 <= arr[i] <= 106

SOLUTION:

class Solution:
    def minimumAbsDifference(self, arr: List[int]) -> List[List[int]]:
        n = len(arr)
        mindiff = float('inf')
        mindiffindexes = []
        arr.sort()
        for i in range(n - 1):
            currdiff = arr[i + 1] - arr[i]
            if currdiff < mindiff:
                mindiff = currdiff
                mindiffindexes = []
            if currdiff == mindiff:
                mindiffindexes.append(i)
        return [[arr[i], arr[i + 1]] for i in mindiffindexes]
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