@Shuaib: It will work in all cases. If you don't think so, give a
counterexample.

Dave

On Aug 16, 12:50 am, Shuaib <[email protected]> wrote:
> That will work but not in all cases as radix sort isn't a generalized sorting 
> algorithm, is it? :)
>
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> On 16-Aug-2011, at 10:10 AM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > @Shuaib: You could sort the numbers in O(n) with a radix sort, and
> > then finding the min is easy. Mind you, the radix sort might be slower
> > than an O(n log n) sort, but still it satisfies the O(n) constraint.
>
> > Dave
>
> > On Aug 15, 8:41 pm, Shuaib <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> That won't work. And I don't think an O(n) solution is possible.
>
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> >> On 16-Aug-2011, at 6:25 AM, sukran dhawan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>> find the minimum of two numbers in a loop o(n) and subtract the two
>
> >>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Brijesh Upadhyay 
> >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> Algorithm to find the two numbers whose difference is minimum among the 
> >>> set of numbers. For example the sequence is 5, 13, 7, 0, 10, 20, 1, 15, 
> >>> 4, 19 The algorithm should return min diff = 20-19 = 1. Constraint - Time 
> >>> Complexity O(N)
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