Minimum Absolute Difference

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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 <= 10^5
  • -10^6 <= arr[i] <= 10^6

Solution:

Easy.

class Solution {
public:
    vector<vector<int>> minimumAbsDifference(vector<int>& arr) {
        sort(arr.begin(),arr.end());
        int mina = INT_MAX;
        for(int i =0 ;i <arr.size()-1;i++){
            if(arr[i+1]-arr[i] < mina) mina = arr[i+1]-arr[i];
        }
        vector<vector<int>> ans;
        for(int i =0 ;i <arr.size()-1;i++){
            if(arr[i+1]-arr[i] == mina) ans.push_back(vector<int>{arr[i],arr[i+1]});
        }
        return ans;
    }
};