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?




 class Solution:
    def sortedSquares(self, nums: List[int]) -> List[int]:

        num = len(nums)
        start = 0
        end = num-1

        sorted_list = [0]*num
        index = num-1


        while start<=end:
            if abs(nums[start]) > abs(nums[end]):
                sorted_list[index]=nums[start]**2
                start+=1
            else:
                sorted_list[index]=nums[end]**2
                end-=1

            index-=1

        return sorted_list

Random Note


Need continuous some smaller/larger value? Use heap max or min as you need.