Problem:
Score : 400 points

Problem Statement

You are given N integers; the i-th of them is A_i.
Find the maximum possible sum of the absolute differences between the adjacent elements after arranging these integers in a row in any order you like.

Constraints

2 \leq N \leq 10^5

1 \leq A_i \leq 10^9

All values in input are integers.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N
A_1
:
A_N

Output

Print the maximum possible sum of the absolute differences between the adjacent elements after arranging the given integers in a row in any order you like.

Sample Input 1

5
6
8
1
2
3

Sample Output 1

21

When the integers are arranged as 3,8,1,6,2, the sum of the absolute differences between the adjacent elements is |3 - 8| + |8 - 1| + |1 - 6| + |6 - 2| = 21. This is the maximum possible sum.

Sample Input 2

6
3
1
4
1
5
9

Sample Output 2

25

Sample Input 3

3
5
5
1

Sample Output 3

8

Solution in Java8 (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.InputMismatchException;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

public class Main {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
		InputStream inputStream = System.in;
		OutputStream outputStream = System.out;
		InputReader in = new InputReader(inputStream);
		PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outputStream);
		TaskX solver = new TaskX();
		solver.solve(1, in, out);
		out.close();
	}

	static int INF = 1 << 30;
	static long LINF = 1L << 55;
	static int MOD = 1000000007;
	static int[] mh4 = { 0, -1, 1, 0 };
	static int[] mw4 = { -1, 0, 0, 1 };
	static int[] mh8 = { -1, -1, -1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1 };
	static int[] mw8 = { -1, 0, 1, -1, 1, -1, 0, 1 };

	static class TaskX {

		public void solve(int testNumber, InputReader in, PrintWriter out) {

			int n = in.nextInt();
			long[] a = in.nextLongArray(n);
			long[] as = a.clone();
			Arrays.sort(as);

			long ans = 0;
			if (n % 2 == 0) {

				long[] b = new long[n];
				for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
					if (i % 2 == 0) {
						b[i] = 2;
					} else {
						b[i] = -2;
					}
				}
				b[0] = 1; b[n-1] = -1;
				Arrays.sort(b);

				long tmp = 0;
				for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
					tmp += as[i] * b[i];
				}
				ans = Math.max(ans, tmp);

			} else {

				long[] b = new long[n];
				for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
					if (i % 2 == 0) {
						b[i] = 2;
					} else {
						b[i] = -2;
					}
				}
				b[0] = 1; b[n-1] = 1;
				Arrays.sort(b);

				long tmp = 0;
				for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
					tmp += as[i] * b[i];
				}
				ans = Math.max(ans, tmp);

				b = new long[n];
				for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
					if (i % 2 == 0) {
						b[i] = -2;
					} else {
						b[i] = 2;
					}
				}
				b[0] = -1; b[n-1] = -1;
				Arrays.sort(b);

				tmp = 0;
				for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
					tmp += as[i] * b[i];
				}

				ans = Math.max(ans, tmp);
			}

			out.println(ans);

		}
	}

	static class InputReader {
		BufferedReader in;
		StringTokenizer tok;

		public String nextString() {
			while (!tok.hasMoreTokens()) {
				try {
					tok = new StringTokenizer(in.readLine(), " ");
				} catch (IOException e) {
					throw new InputMismatchException();
				}
			}
			return tok.nextToken();
		}

		public int nextInt() {
			return Integer.parseInt(nextString());
		}

		public long nextLong() {
			return Long.parseLong(nextString());
		}

		public double nextDouble() {
			return Double.parseDouble(nextString());
		}

		public int[] nextIntArray(int n) {
			int[] res = new int[n];
			for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
				res[i] = nextInt();
			}
			return res;
		}

		public int[] nextIntArrayDec(int n) {
			int[] res = new int[n];
			for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
				res[i] = nextInt() - 1;
			}
			return res;
		}

		public int[] nextIntArray1Index(int n) {
			int[] res = new int[n + 1];
			for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
				res[i + 1] = nextInt();
			}
			return res;
		}

		public long[] nextLongArray(int n) {
			long[] res = new long[n];
			for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
				res[i] = nextLong();
			}
			return res;
		}

		public long[] nextLongArrayDec(int n) {
			long[] res = new long[n];
			for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
				res[i] = nextLong() - 1;
			}
			return res;
		}

		public long[] nextLongArray1Index(int n) {
			long[] res = new long[n + 1];
			for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
				res[i + 1] = nextLong();
			}
			return res;
		}

		public double[] nextDoubleArray(int n) {
			double[] res = new double[n];
			for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
				res[i] = nextDouble();
			}
			return res;
		}

		public InputReader(InputStream inputStream) {
			in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
			tok = new StringTokenizer("");
		}
	}

}