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Squares of a Sorted Array

Contributed by

Shrey Pansuria

Easy

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15 mins

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42 upvotes

Problem Statement

You are given an array/list ‘ARR’ of ‘N’ integers. You have to generate an array/list containing squares of each number in ‘ARR’, sorted in increasing order.

For example :

Input:
‘ARR’ = [-6,-3, 2, 1, 5] 

If we take a square of each element then the array/list will become [36, 9, 4, 1, 25].
Then the sorted array/list will be [1, 4, 9, 25, 36].

Output :
[1, 4, 9, 25, 36].

Detailed explanation ( Input/output format, Notes, Images )

Input Format:

The first line of input contains a single integer ‘T’, representing the number of test cases.
Then the ‘T’ test cases follow.

The first line of each test case contains a single integer ‘N’ denoting the size of ‘ARR’.

The second line contains ‘N’ space-separated distinct integers denoting the array elements.

Output format:

For each test case, print the array elements separated by a single space.

The output of every test case will be printed in a separate line.

Note :

You don’t have to print anything, it has already been taken care of. Just implement the given function.

Constraints

1 <= T <=100
1 <= N <= 10^4
-10^4 <=  ‘ARR[i]’ <= 10^4

Where 'ARR[i]' denotes the value of 'ARR' at index 'i'. 

Time limit: 1 sec

Sample Input 1:

2
4 
-3 -3 1 2
6 
0 1 2 3 4 5

Sample Output 1:

1 4 9 9 
0 1 4 9 16 25

Explanation Of Sample Input 1:

For test case 1:
On taking the square of each element ‘ARR’ will become [9, 9, 1, 4].
Now we can sort the array/list and output will be [1, 4, 9, 9].

For test case 2:
On taking the square of each element ‘ARR’ will become [0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25].
Now we can see that the array/list is already sorted, so the output will be  [0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25].

Sample Input 2:

2
1
5
4
-6 -3 -2 -1

Sample Output 2:

25
1 4 9 36

Explanation Of Sample Input 2:

For test case 1:
On taking the square of each element ‘ARR’ will become [25].
Now as the array/list has only 1 element so it is already sorted, the output will be [25].

For test case 2:
On taking the square of each element ‘ARR’ will become [36,9,4,1].
Now we can see that the array/list is already sorted, so the output will be [36, 9, 4, 1].

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