#K35232. Sum of Absolute Differences
Sum of Absolute Differences
Sum of Absolute Differences
You are given an integer N and a list of N integers. Your task is to compute the sum of the absolute differences between each pair of consecutive elements in the list. In other words, if the list is \(a_0, a_1, \ldots, a_{N-1}\), you need to calculate:
\(\sum_{i=1}^{N-1} |a_i - a_{i-1}|\)
Print the result to standard output.
inputFormat
The first line of input contains a single integer N, the number of elements in the list.
The second line contains N space-separated integers representing the list elements.
outputFormat
Output a single integer, which is the sum of the absolute differences between each pair of consecutive elements.
## sample5
1 -3 4 -2 6
25
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