Given an array arr[], the task is to find a subarray with the difference between the maximum and the minimum element is greater than or equal to the length of subarray. If no such subarray exists then print -1.
Examples:
Input: arr[] = {3, 7, 5, 1}
Output: 3 7
|3 – 7| > length({3, 7}) i.e. 4 ≥ 2
Input: arr[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
Output: -1
There is no such subarray that meets the criteria.
Naive approach: Find All the subarray that are possible with at least two elements and then check for each of the subarrays that satisfy the given condition i.e. max(subarray) – min(subarray) ≥ len(subarray)
Efficient approach: Find the subarrays of length 2 where the absolute difference between the only two elements is greater than or equal to 2. This will cover almost all the cases because there are only three cases when there is no such subarray:
- When the length of the array is 0.
- When all the elements in the array are equal.
- When every two consecutive elements in the array have an absolute difference of either 0 or 1.
Below is the implementation of the above approach:
// C++ implementation of the approach #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std;
// Function to find the required subarray void findSubArr( int arr[], int n)
{ // For every two consecutive element subarray
for ( int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) {
// If the current pair of consecutive
// elements satisfies the given condition
if ( abs (arr[i] - arr[i + 1]) >= 2) {
cout << arr[i] << " " << arr[i + 1];
return ;
}
}
// No such subarray found
cout << -1;
} // Driver code int main()
{ int arr[] = { 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 };
int n = sizeof (arr) / sizeof ( int );
findSubArr(arr, n);
return 0;
} |
// Java implementation of the approach class GFG
{ // Function to find the required subarray
static void findSubArr( int arr[], int n)
{
// For every two consecutive element subarray
for ( int i = 0 ; i < n - 1 ; i++)
{
// If the current pair of consecutive
// elements satisfies the given condition
if (Math.abs(arr[i] - arr[i + 1 ]) >= 2 )
{
System.out.print(arr[i] + " " + arr[i + 1 ]);
return ;
}
}
// No such subarray found
System.out.print(- 1 );
}
// Driver code
public static void main (String[] args)
{
int arr[] = { 1 , 2 , 4 , 6 , 7 };
int n = arr.length;
findSubArr(arr, n);
}
} // This code is contributed by AnkitRai01 |
# Python3 implementation of the approach # Function to find the required subarray def findSubArr(arr, n) :
# For every two consecutive element subarray
for i in range (n - 1 ) :
# If the current pair of consecutive
# elements satisfies the given condition
if ( abs (arr[i] - arr[i + 1 ]) > = 2 ) :
print (arr[i] ,arr[i + 1 ],end = "");
return ;
# No such subarray found
print ( - 1 );
# Driver code if __name__ = = "__main__" :
arr = [ 1 , 2 , 4 , 6 , 7 ];
n = len (arr);
findSubArr(arr, n);
# This code is contributed by AnkitRai01 |
// C# implementation of the approach using System;
class GFG
{ // Function to find the required subarray
static void findSubArr( int []arr, int n)
{
// For every two consecutive element subarray
for ( int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++)
{
// If the current pair of consecutive
// elements satisfies the given condition
if (Math.Abs(arr[i] - arr[i + 1]) >= 2)
{
Console.Write(arr[i] + " " + arr[i + 1]);
return ;
}
}
// No such subarray found
Console.Write(-1);
}
// Driver code
public static void Main()
{
int []arr = { 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 };
int n = arr.Length;
findSubArr(arr, n);
}
} // This code is contributed by AnkitRai01 |
<script> // JavaScript implementation of the approach // Function to find the required subarray function findSubArr(arr, n) {
// For every two consecutive element subarray
for (let i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) {
// If the current pair of consecutive
// elements satisfies the given condition
if (Math.abs(arr[i] - arr[i + 1]) >= 2) {
document.write(arr[i] + " " + arr[i + 1]);
return ;
}
}
// No such subarray found
document.write(-1);
} // Driver code let arr = [1, 2, 4, 6, 7]; let n = arr.length findSubArr(arr, n); // This code is contributed by gfgking </script> |
2 4
Time Complexity: O(N)