Leetcode 453 Solution

This article provides solution to leetcode question 453 (minimum-moves-to-equal-array-elements)
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https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-moves-to-equal-array-elements

Solution

class Solution {
public:
    int minMoves(vector<int>& nums) {
        if (nums.size() == 0)
            return 0;



        int min_val = INT_MAX;



        for (auto it = nums.begin(); it != nums.end(); it++)
            min_val = min(min_val, *it);



        int total = 0;
        for (auto it = nums.begin(); it != nums.end(); it++)
            total += *it - min_val;



        return total;
    }
};