Squares of a Sorted Array - LeetCode
Given an integer array nums
sorted in non-decreasing order, return an array of the squares of each number sorted in non-decreasing order.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [-4,-1,0,3,10]
Output: [0,1,9,16,100]
Explanation: After squaring, the array becomes [16,1,0,9,100].
After sorting, it becomes [0,1,9,16,100].
Example 2:
Input: nums = [-7,-3,2,3,11]
Output: [4,9,9,49,121]
Constraints:
1 <= nums.length <= 104
104 <= nums[i] <= 104
nums
is sorted in non-decreasing order.Follow up:
Squaring each element and sorting the new array is very trivial, could you find an O(n)
solution using a different approach?
public int[] sortedSquares(int[] nums) {
int[] answer = new int[nums.length];
for (int i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) {
answer[i] = (int) Math.pow(nums[i], 2);
}
Arrays.sort(answer);
return answer;
}
public int[] sortedSquares2(int[] nums) {
int p1 = 0, length = nums.length, p2 = length - 1;
int[] answer = new int[nums.length];
for (int i = length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
if (Math.abs(nums[p1]) >= Math.abs(nums[p2])) {
answer[i] = nums[p1] * nums[p1];
p1++;
} else {
answer[i] = nums[p2] * nums[p2];
p2--;
}
}
return answer;
}