Medium
Make K-Subarray Sums Equal — C++
Full explanation · Time O(n) · Space O(n)
// Time: O(n)
// Space: O(n)
// math, greedy, quick select
class Solution {
public:
long long makeSubKSumEqual(vector<int>& arr, int k) {
const int l = gcd(k, size(arr));
int64_t result = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < l; ++i) {
vector<int> vals;
for (int j = i; j < size(arr); j += l) {
vals.emplace_back(arr[j]);
}
nth_element(begin(vals), begin(vals) + size(vals) / 2, end(vals));
result += accumulate(cbegin(vals), cend(vals), 0LL,
[&](const auto& total, const auto& x) {
return total + abs(x - vals[size(vals) / 2]);
});
}
return result;
}
};