Medium
Reduction Operations to Make the Array Elements Equal — C++
Full explanation · Time O(nlogn) · Space O(1)
// Time: O(nlogn)
// Space: O(1)
class Solution {
public:
int reductionOperations(vector<int>& nums) {
sort(begin(nums), end(nums));
int result = 0, curr = 0;
for (int i = 1; i < size(nums); ++i) {
if (nums[i - 1] < nums[i]) {
++curr;
}
result += curr;
}
return result;
}
};