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In this question, we have to find the array e that stores the closest elements from array b to each element in array a.
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So for that, let us look at the logic or the steps that will be required.
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So firstly, what we'll do is initialize an empty array c.
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So after doing this for each element in array ai, we have to do certain steps.
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So in each element in a, that is array a, we have to do these things.
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So i'll write them with abc.
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We have to initialize, first of all, a variable that is minpiff to positive infinity.
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Then next thing we'll do is we have to initialize a variable closest element to none.
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We have to initialize variable that is closest element to none.
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Then what we have to do is we have to iterate through each element bj in array b.
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We have to iterate through each element in array by.
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So we have to calculate the absolute difference between ai and bj.
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So that we have to do.
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And then we have to give the absolute difference is less than minimum difference.
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So we have to update the minimum difference to absolute difference and the closest element to bj.
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And then we append and then we return.
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Return array c when all the operations are carried on it.
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So this algorithm iterates through each element in array a and finds the element in array b that has the minimum absolute difference with it.
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So the closest element is then stored in the corresponding position in array c.
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But now as we can see that time complexity that is there, time complexity of this algorithm is given by 0 n cap 2.
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So where n is the size of the input arrays.
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So this is because for each element in array a, we iterate through all the elements in array b to find the closest one.
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So in the worst case, this results in n iterations for n elements leading to a quadratic time complexity.
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So however, there is room for optimization by using sorting and binary search...