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By eleganc, history, 18 months ago, In English

Hi, I recently faced this problem in an OA. Any approaches to solve this?

An array consists of N elements. We want to minimize the absolute difference between adjacent elements of the array. We can change any integer to any other integer however at most K changes are allowed. If n <= 1 return 0.

Here is the exact problem link: https://www.codechef.com/CRK32020/problems/KEVIN?tab=statement There is some hint toward binary search, but I don't precisely infer how it is to be applied.

Constraints: 1 ≤ k ≤ n ≤ 2000 -1e9 ≤ Ai ≤ 1e9

Eg. N = 6, K = 3 Arr = [1 2 3 7 8 9] Here Arr can be transformed to [1 2 3 4 5 6] in 3 changes. And the answer becomes 1.

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