Problem:
Score : 600 points

Problem Statement

You are given an integer sequence A of length N and an integer K.
You will perform the following operation on this sequence Q times:

Choose a contiguous subsequence of length K, then remove the smallest element among the K elements contained in the chosen subsequence (if there are multiple such elements, choose one of them as you like).

Let X and Y be the values of the largest and smallest element removed in the Q operations. You would like X-Y to be as small as possible.
Find the smallest possible value of X-Y when the Q operations are performed optimally.

Constraints

1 \leq N \leq 2000

1 \leq K \leq N

1 \leq Q \leq N-K+1

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 K Q
A_1 A_2 ... A_N

Output

Print the smallest possible value of X-Y.

Sample Input 1

5 3 2
4 3 1 5 2

Sample Output 1

1

In the first operation, whichever contiguous subsequence of length 3 we choose, the minimum element in it is 1.
Thus, the first operation removes A_3=1 and now we have A=(4,3,5,2).
In the second operation, it is optimal to choose (A_2,A_3,A_4)=(3,5,2) as the contiguous subsequence of length 3 and remove A_4=2.
In this case, the largest element removed is 2, and the smallest is 1, so their difference is 2-1=1.

Sample Input 2

10 1 6
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55

Sample Output 2

7

Sample Input 3

11 7 5
24979445 861648772 623690081 433933447 476190629 262703497 211047202 971407775 628894325 731963982 822804784

Sample Output 3

451211184

Solution in Rust (1.15.1) (judge verdict: Accepted)

use std::cmp;

fn main() {
    let mut sc = Scanner::new();
    let n: usize = sc.read();
    let k: usize = sc.read();
    let q: usize = sc.read();
    let a: Vec<u64> = sc.read_vec(n);

    if n == 1 {
        println!("0");
        return;
    }

    let mut ans = std::u64::MAX;
    for &y in &a {
        let mut unremovable = vec![];
        for i in 0..n {
            if a[i] < y {
                unremovable.push(i);
            }
        }
        unremovable.push(n);

        let remove = |from: usize, to: usize| -> Vec<u64> {
            if from >= to || to - from + 1 < k {
                return Vec::new();
            }
            let mut x = vec![];
            for i in from..(to + 1) {
                x.push(a[i]);
            }
            x.sort();
            let count = x.len() - k + 1;
            (0..count).map(|i| x[i]).collect()
        };

        let mut removed = vec![];
        if unremovable[0] > 0 {
            removed.append(&mut remove(0, unremovable[0] - 1));
        }
        for i in 0..(unremovable.len() - 1) {
            let from = unremovable[i] + 1;
            let to = unremovable[i + 1] - 1;
            removed.append(&mut remove(from, to));
        }
        removed.sort();

        if removed.len() < q {
            continue;
        }
        let x = removed[q - 1];
        ans = cmp::min(ans, x - y);
    }

    println!("{}", ans);
}

struct Scanner {
    ptr: usize,
    length: usize,
    buf: Vec<u8>,
    small_cache: Vec<u8>,
}

#[allow(dead_code)]
impl Scanner {
    fn new() -> Scanner {
        Scanner {
            ptr: 0,
            length: 0,
            buf: vec![0; 1024],
            small_cache: vec![0; 1024],
        }
    }

    fn load(&mut self) {
        use std::io::Read;
        let mut s = std::io::stdin();
        self.length = s.read(&mut self.buf).unwrap();
    }

    fn byte(&mut self) -> u8 {
        if self.ptr >= self.length {
            self.ptr = 0;
            self.load();
            if self.length == 0 {
                self.buf[0] = b'\n';
                self.length = 1;
            }
        }

        self.ptr += 1;
        return self.buf[self.ptr - 1];
    }

    fn is_space(b: u8) -> bool {
        b == b'\n' || b == b'\r' || b == b'\t' || b == b' '
    }

    fn read_vec<T>(&mut self, n: usize) -> Vec<T>
    where
        T: std::str::FromStr,
        T::Err: std::fmt::Debug,
    {
        (0..n).map(|_| self.read()).collect()
    }

    fn read<T>(&mut self) -> T
    where
        T: std::str::FromStr,
        T::Err: std::fmt::Debug,
    {
        let mut b = self.byte();
        while Scanner::is_space(b) {
            b = self.byte();
        }

        for pos in 0..self.small_cache.len() {
            self.small_cache[pos] = b;
            b = self.byte();
            if Scanner::is_space(b) {
                return String::from_utf8_lossy(&self.small_cache[0..(pos + 1)])
                    .parse()
                    .unwrap();
            }
        }

        let mut v = self.small_cache.clone();
        while !Scanner::is_space(b) {
            v.push(b);
            b = self.byte();
        }
        return String::from_utf8_lossy(&v).parse().unwrap();
    }
}