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You are given a list of integers nums, and want to make the values equal. Consider an operation where you pick an integer in the list and increment every other value .

Return the minimum number of operations required to make integer values equal.

Constraints

  • n ≤ 100,000 where n is the length of nums

https://binarysearch.com/problems/List-Equality-with-Increments

Examples

Example 1

Input

  • nums = [1, 3, 4]

Output

  • answer = 5

Explanation

Here are the operations we can use:

  • [2, 4, 4]
  • [3, 5, 4]
  • [4, 5, 5]
  • [5, 6, 5]
  • [6, 6, 6]

Solution

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