3766. Minimum Operations to Make Binary Palindrome

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You are given an integer array nums.

For each element nums[i], you may perform the following operations any number of times (including zero):

  • Increase nums[i] by 1, or
  • Decrease nums[i] by 1.

A number is called a binary palindrome if its binary representation without leading zeros reads the same forward and backward.

Your task is to return an integer array ans, where ans[i] represents the minimum number of operations required to convert nums[i] into a binary palindrome.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,2,4]

Output: [0,1,1]

Explanation:

One optimal set of operations:

nums[i] Binary(nums[i]) Nearest
Palindrome
Binary
(Palindrome)
Operations Required ans[i]
1 1 1 1 Already palindrome 0
2 10 3 11 Increase by 1 1
4 100 3 11 Decrease by 1 1

Thus, ans = [0, 1, 1].

Example 2:

Input: nums = [6,7,12]

Output: [1,0,3]

Explanation:

One optimal set of operations:

nums[i] Binary(nums[i]) Nearest
Palindrome
Binary
(Palindrome)
Operations Required ans[i]
6 110 5 101 Decrease by 1 1
7 111 7 111 Already palindrome 0
12 1100 15 1111 Increase by 3 3

Thus, ans = [1, 0, 3].

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 5000
  • ​​​​​​​1 <= nums[i] <= 5000

Hints

Hint 1
Preprocess the binary palindromes
Hint 2
For each nums[i] find the closest binary palindrome from the preprocessed values