Largest and Smallest Difference
Given a list of integers nums
and an integer k
, choose elements from nums
to create a list of length k
such that the difference between the largest integer in the list and the smallest integer is minimized. Return this difference.
Constraints
k ≤ n ≤ 100,000
wheren
is the length ofnums
https://binarysearch.com/problems/Largest-and-Smallest-Difference
Examples
Example 1
Input
- nums =
[2, 10, 5, 1, 8]
- k =
3
Output
- answer =
4
Explanation
The best list we can make is [1, 2, 5]
.
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