Solution 1 for Scaler Topics Fortnightly Contest - 19
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DSA Problem Solving for Interviews using Java
by Jitender Punia
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This article is part of the Scaler Topics Fortnightly Contest - 19
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We can exhaustively search every pair of indices and take
- Minimum of them if both indices in pair are different or
- Their sum if both indices in pair are same
Time Complexity - O(N^2) Space Complexity - O(1)
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