Can you help me to figure out how this outout emerged?A sequence of N data points as a list of comma separated integer values.Task is generate N values representing the original values, but obfuscating their real values.You should do this by selecting the highest and lowest value in the data set and creating N−2 data points numerically evenly spaced out between the two. Your output should be a comma separated list of N integer values ordered from low to high. Where the numbers are not integer, you should round them such that they end up integer.Example 1:Input: "3,2"Output: "2,3"Explanation: The lowest and highest values are 3 and 4 respectively, and there are no intermediate values that need to be interpretedExample 2:Input: "4,5,3,5"Output: "3,4,4,5"Explanation: The lowest and highest values are 3 and 5 and the intermediate values become 3.66 and 4.33, which when rounded to integers to make as 4 and 4.

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Can you help me to figure out how this outout emerged?A sequence of N data points as a list of comma separated integer values.Task is generate N values representing the original values, but obfuscating their real values.You should do this by selecting the highest and lowest value in the data set and creating N−2 data points numerically evenly spaced out between the two. Your output should be a comma separated list of N integer values ordered from low to high. Where the numbers are not integer, you should round them such that they end up integer.Example 1:Input: &quot;3,2&quot;Output: &quot;2,3&quot;Explanation: The lowest and highest values are 3 and 4 respectively, and there are no intermediate values that need to be interpretedExample 2:Input: &quot;4,5,3,5&quot;Output: &quot;3,4,4,5&quot;Explanation: The lowest and highest values are 3 and 5 and the intermediate values become 3.66 and 4.33, which when rounded to integers to make as 4 and 4.

zlepljalz2 · Accepted Answer

In the second example there are 4 data points, the smallest being 3 and the largest 5. Thus, we want to produce 4 equally spaced points 3,a,b,5.The gap between 3 and 5 is 5−3=2 units long, and we want to put 2 points into it. Those 2 points create 3 gaps, which are all supposed to be the same length:  a  −  3  =  b  −  a  =  5  −  b    .This means that the gap between consecutive points must be one-third of the length of the interval from 3 to 5, i.e.,                     5        −        3            3        =            2      3      . That puts a at   3  +            2      3        ≈  3.67 and b at   3  +  2  ⋅            2      3        =  3  +            4      3        ≈  4.33, both of which round to 4.In general if m is your smallest data point, and M is your largest, you’ll be finding N−2 equally spaced points between m and M. Those points will create N−1 equal-sized gaps, so the size of each gap must be                     M        −        m                    N        −        1

Shea Stuart · Accepted Answer

Once one knows N the length of the input, m its minimum value and M its maximum value, the output is   (      x    k        )          1      ⩽      k      ⩽      N      where       x    k   is the nearest integer to                     (        N        −        k        )        m        +        M        (        k        −        1        )                    N        −        1

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