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Find Median of Array of pairwise difference of an array
By purist, history, 6 years ago, In English

Given an array, we can generate an array which stores all the pairwise absolute difference of elements of original array. How can we find median of this new array. For example : A = {1,2,3,4} then we can generate difference array as G = {1,1,1,2,2,3} then median is 1.can it be done in better than quadratic time? Also what if we don't take absolute value of difference?

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N *logN logN approach. - 1. Sort the elements. - 2. Do binary search on median. - 3. For a particular value of median you can check how many pairwise elements will be smaller than the median. You can do this N log N , as you will have do again binary search on array.

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    Actually it can be done in by using two pointers technique.

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