1685. Sum of Absolute Differences in a Sorted Array

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    Problem

    You are given an integer array nums sorted in non-decreasing order.

    Build and return **an integer array *result* with the same length as nums such that result[i] is equal to the summation of absolute differences between nums[i] and all the other elements in the array.**

    In other words, result[i] is equal to sum(|nums[i]-nums[j]|) where 0 <= j < nums.length and j != i (0-indexed).

      Example 1:

    Input: nums = [2,3,5]
    Output: [4,3,5]
    Explanation: Assuming the arrays are 0-indexed, then
    result[0] = |2-2| + |2-3| + |2-5| = 0 + 1 + 3 = 4,
    result[1] = |3-2| + |3-3| + |3-5| = 1 + 0 + 2 = 3,
    result[2] = |5-2| + |5-3| + |5-5| = 3 + 2 + 0 = 5.
    

    Example 2:

    Input: nums = [1,4,6,8,10]
    Output: [24,15,13,15,21]
    

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    Solution

    /**
     * @param {number[]} nums
     * @return {number[]}
     */
    var getSumAbsoluteDifferences = function(nums) {
        var diffLeft = Array(nums.length);
        for (var i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) {
            if (i === 0) {
                diffLeft[i] = 0;
            } else {
                diffLeft[i] = diffLeft[i - 1] + (nums[i] - nums[i - 1]) * i;
            }
        }
        var diffRight = Array(nums.length);
        for (var j = nums.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
            if (j === nums.length - 1) {
                diffRight[j] = 0;
            } else {
                diffRight[j] = diffRight[j + 1] + (nums[j + 1] - nums[j]) * (nums.length - 1 - j);
            }
        }
        var diff = Array(nums.length);
        for (var k = 0; k < nums.length; k++) {
            diff[k] = diffLeft[k] + diffRight[k];
        }
        return diff;
    };
    

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    nope.

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