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Sum of minimum absolute difference of each array element | function to find the sum of minimum absolute difference.
sort the given array.
initialize sum.
min absolute difference for the 1 st array element.
min absolute difference for the last array element.
find min absolute difference for rest of the array elements and add them to sum.
required sum.
Driver code"
Solution in Python:
 Can you provide a code to sum of minimum absolute difference of each array element and the other steps required?
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#Here is code to sum of minimum absolute difference of each array element and the other steps required.
 def sumOfMinAbsDifferences ( arr , n ) :
	arr . sort ( )
	sum = 0
	sum += abs ( arr [ 0 ] - arr [ 1 ] ) ;
	sum += abs ( arr [ n - 1 ] - arr [ n - 2 ] ) ;
	for i in range ( 1 , n - 1 ) :
		sum += min ( abs ( arr [ i ] - arr [ i - 1 ] ) , abs ( arr [ i ] - arr [ i + 1 ] ) )
	return sum ;
arr = [ 5 , 10 , 1 , 4 , 8 , 7 ]
n = len ( arr )
print ( " Sum ▁ = ▁ " , sumOfMinAbsDifferences ( arr , n ) )