DEV Community

Abhishek Chaudhary
Abhishek Chaudhary

Posted on

Can Make Arithmetic Progression From Sequence

A sequence of numbers is called an arithmetic progression if the difference between any two consecutive elements is the same.

Given an array of numbers arr, return true if the array can be rearranged to form an arithmetic progression. Otherwise, return false.

Example 1:

Input: arr = [3,5,1]
Output: true
Explanation: We can reorder the elements as [1,3,5] or [5,3,1] with differences 2 and -2 respectively, between each consecutive elements.

Example 2:

Input: arr = [1,2,4]
Output: false
Explanation: There is no way to reorder the elements to obtain an arithmetic progression.

Constraints:

  • 2 <= arr.length <= 1000
  • -106 <= arr[i] <= 106

SOLUTION:

from collections import Counter

class Solution:
    def canMakeArithmeticProgression(self, arr: List[int]) -> bool:
        n = len(arr)
        if n == 1:
            return True
        arr = Counter(arr)
        a = min(arr)
        b = max(arr)
        d = (b - a) // (n - 1)
        if d == 0 and len(arr) == 1:
            return True
        for i in range(n):
            if arr[a + i * d] != 1:
                return False
        return True
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Top comments (0)