Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

There is a circular pond with a perimeter of K meters, and N houses around them.

The i-th house is built at a distance of A_i meters from the northmost point of the pond, measured clockwise around the pond.

When traveling between these houses, you can only go around the pond.

Find the minimum distance that needs to be traveled when you start at one of the houses and visit all the N houses.

Constraints

2 \leq K \leq 10^6

2 \leq N \leq 2 \times 10^5

0 \leq A_1 < ... < A_N < K

All values in input are integers.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

K N
A_1 A_2 ... A_N

Output

Print the minimum distance that needs to be traveled when you start at one of the houses and visit all the N houses.

Sample Input 1

20 3
5 10 15

Sample Output 1

10

If you start at the 1-st house and go to the 2-nd and 3-rd houses in this order, the total distance traveled will be 10.

Sample Input 2

20 3
0 5 15

Sample Output 2

10

If you start at the 2-nd house and go to the 1-st and 3-rd houses in this order, the total distance traveled will be 10.

Solution in Scala (2.11.7) (judge verdict: Accepted)

//import java.util.Scanner

import java.io._
import java.nio.file.Files._
import java.nio.file.Path
import java.util.StringTokenizer

import scala.collection.immutable._
import scala.io.Codec

/**
  * Scala implementation of a faster java.util.Scanner
  * See: http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/7018
  */

class Scanner(reader: LineNumberReader) extends Iterable[String] with AutoCloseable {
  def this(reader: BufferedReader) = this(new LineNumberReader(reader))

  def this(reader: Reader) = this(new BufferedReader(reader))

  def this(inputStream: InputStream)(implicit codec: Codec) = this(new InputStreamReader(inputStream, codec.charSet))

  def this(path: Path)(implicit codec: Codec) = this(newBufferedReader(path, codec.charSet))

  def this(file: File)(implicit codec: Codec) = this(file.toPath)(codec)

  def this(str: String) = this(new StringReader(str))

  override def iterator: Iterator[String] = for {
    line <- Iterator.continually(reader.readLine()).takeWhile(_ != null)
    tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(line)
    tokens <- Iterator.continually(tokenizer).takeWhile(_.hasMoreTokens)
  } yield tokens.nextToken()

  private[this] var current = iterator

  def hasNext: Boolean = current.hasNext

  @inline def next(): String = current.next()

  /**
    * This is different from Java's scanner.nextLine
    * The Java one is a misnomer since it actually travel to end of current line
    * This one actually does fetch the next line
    */
  def nextLine(): String = {
    val line = reader.readLine()
    current = iterator
    line
  }

  def lineNumber: Int = reader.getLineNumber

  def nextString(): String = next()

  def nextBoolean(): Boolean = next().toBoolean

  def nextByte(radix: Int = 10): Byte = java.lang.Byte.parseByte(next(), radix)

  def nextShort(radix: Int = 10): Short = java.lang.Short.parseShort(next(), radix)

  def nextInt(radix: Int = 10): Int = java.lang.Integer.parseInt(next(), radix)

  def nextLong(radix: Int = 10): Long = java.lang.Long.parseLong(next(), radix)

  def nextBigInt(radix: Int = 10): BigInt = BigInt(next(), radix)

  def nextFloat(): Float = next().toFloat

  def nextDouble(): Double = next().toDouble

  def nextBigDecimal(): BigDecimal = BigDecimal(next())

  override def close(): Unit = reader.close()
}


class IUnionFind(val size: Int) {

  private case class Node(var parent: Option[Int], var treeSize: Int)

  private val nodes = Array.fill[Node](size)(Node(None, treeSize = 1))

  def union(t1: Int, t2: Int): IUnionFind = {
    if (t1 == t2) return this

    val root1 = root(t1)
    val root2 = root(t2)
    if (root1 == root2) return this

    val node1 = nodes(root1)
    val node2 = nodes(root2)

    if (node1.treeSize < node2.treeSize) {
      node1.parent = Some(t2)
      node2.treeSize += node1.treeSize
    } else {
      node2.parent = Some(t1)
      node1.treeSize += node2.treeSize
    }
    this
  }

  def connected(t1: Int, t2: Int): Boolean = t1 == t2 || root(t1) == root(t2)

  def root(t: Int): Int = nodes(t).parent match {
    case None => t
    case Some(p) =>
      nodes(t).parent = Some(root(p))
      nodes(t).parent.get
  }
}


object Main {
  def solve(sc: => Scanner): Unit = {
    val K = sc.nextLong()
    val A = Array.fill(sc.nextInt())(sc.nextLong())
    println(K - (A :+ (A.head + K)).sliding(2).map(x => x(1) - x(0)).max)
  }

  def flip(A: Array[Boolean], B: Array[(Int, Long)]): Array[(Int, Long)] = {
    B.map { case (index, _) =>
      (index, (if (0 < index && A(index - 1)) B(index - 1)._2 else 0L) + (if (index + 1 < B.length && !A(index + 1)) B(index + 1)._2 else 0L))
    }
  }

  val mod: Long = (1e9 + 7).toLong

  @scala.annotation.tailrec
  def recursive(Arr: List[(Long, Char)], remaining: Int, remainingA: Int, remainingB: Int, sum: Long = 0): Long = {
    if (remaining == 0) Arr.map(_._1).sum + sum
    else {
      if (Arr.head._2 == 'P')
        if (remainingA > 0) recursive(Arr.tail, remaining - 1, remainingA - 1, remainingB, sum)
        else recursive(Arr.tail, remaining, remainingA, remainingB, sum + Arr.head._1)
      else if (Arr.head._2 == 'Q')
        if (remainingB > 0) recursive(Arr.tail, remaining - 1, remainingA, remainingB - 1, sum)
        else recursive(Arr.tail, remaining, remainingA, remainingB, sum + Arr.head._1)
      else recursive(Arr.tail, remaining - 1, remainingA - 1, remainingB - 1, sum)
    }
  }

  @scala.annotation.tailrec
  def factorial(now: Long, ans: Long = 1): Long = {
    if (now == 0) 0 else if (now == 1) ans else factorial(now - 1, now * ans)
  }

  implicit class implicitInt(val N: Int) {
    def times[B](function: Int => B): IndexedSeq[B] = (0 until N).map(function)
  }

  def calc(input: (Long, Long, Long, Long, Long, Long)): Long = {
    input match {
      case (a, b, c, x, y, z) => {
        var ans: Long = Long.MaxValue
        if (b >= 3 && (a >= 2 || c >= 2)) {
          ans = Math.min(ans, Math.max(a - (b - 1), 0) * x + Math.max(c - Math.min(a - 1, b - 2), 0) * z)
          ans = Math.min(ans, Math.max(a - Math.min(c - 1, b - 2), 0) * x + Math.max(c - (b - 1), 0) * z)
        }
        //        println(ans)
        if (b >= 2 && (a >= b && c >= b + 1)) {
          ans = Math.min(ans, y + Math.max(0, a - (c - 1)) * x)
        }
        //        println(ans)
        if (b >= 2 && (a >= b + 1 && c >= b)) {
          ans = Math.min(ans, y + Math.max(0, c - (a - 1)) * z)
        }
        //        println(ans)
        if (a >= 2 && c >= 2)
          if (a != c)
            ans = Math.min(ans, Math.max(0, b - (Math.min(a, c) - 1)) * y)
          else if (a >= 3 && c >= 3)
            ans = Math.min(ans, Math.max(0, b - (Math.min(a, c) - 2)) * y + Math.min(x, z))
        //        println(ans)
        if (ans == Long.MaxValue) ans = -1
        ans
      }
    }
  }

  def time(s: String): Int =
    s.substring(0, 2).toInt * 60 + s.substring(3, 5).toInt

  def getPermutation(begin: Long = 0): Stream[Long] =
    Stream.cons(begin, getPermutation(begin + 1))

  def getFibonacci(prevprev: Long = 0, prev: Long = 1): Stream[Long] =
    Stream.cons(prevprev, getFibonacci(prev, prevprev + prev))

  @scala.annotation.tailrec
  def recursive2(X: Set[Long], Y: Stream[Long]): Long = if (X.contains(Y.head)) X.size else recursive2(X + Y.head, Y.tail)

  def check(i: Int, X: String): Long = {
    if (X == "") 0 else check(i, X.tail) * i + X.head.toString.toLong
  }

  def shift(n: Long): Long = {
    if (n == 0) 0
    else if (n == 1) 1
    else shift(n - 1) << 1
  }

  def unShift(n: Long): Long = {
    if (n == 0) 0
    else unShift(n >> 1) + 1
  }

  @scala.annotation.tailrec
  def gcd(i: Long, j: Long): Long = {
    if (i < j) gcd(j, i)
    else if (j == 0) i
    else gcd(j, i % j)
  }

  def primeFactors(i: Long): List[Long] = primeFactors_(i, 1).sorted


  def primeFactors_(i: Long, j: Long): List[Long] = {
    if (j * j > i) List.empty else if (i % j == 0) primeFactors_(i, j + 1) ++ List[Long](j, i / j) else primeFactors_(i, j + 1)
  }

  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
    val sc: Scanner = new Scanner(System.in)
    solve(sc)
  }
}

object Util {
  def getPermutation(begin: Long = 0): Stream[Long] =
    Stream.cons(begin, getPermutation(begin + 1))

  def getPrimeList: Stream[Long] =
    getPrimeListRecursive(getPermutation(begin = 2))

  private def getPrimeListRecursive(A: Stream[Long]): Stream[Long] =
    Stream.cons(A.head, getPrimeListRecursive(A.tail.filter(_ % A.head != 0)))

  def fib(a: Long = 0, b: Long = 1, mod: Long = Long.MaxValue): Stream[Long] = a #:: fib(b % mod, (a + b) % mod, mod)
}

object ArabicRoman {

  type =?>[A, B] = PartialFunction[A, B]

  private val codeTable: List[(Int, String)] = List(
    (1000, "M"), (900, "CM"), (500, "D"), (400, "CD"), (100, "C"),
    (90, "XC"), (50, "L"), (40, "XL"), (10, "X"), (9, "IX"), (5, "V"), (4, "IV"), (1, "I"))

  val arabicToRoman: Int =?> String = {
    case src if src >= 1 && src <= 3999 =>

      @scala.annotation.tailrec
      def convert(left: Int, cont: String = "", code: List[(Int, String)] = codeTable): String = {
        val (unitVal, unitChar) = code.head
        left - unitVal match {
          case n if n == 0 => cont + unitChar
          case n if n > 0 => convert(n, cont + unitChar, code)
          case _ => convert(left, cont, code.tail)
        }
      }

      convert(src)
  }

  val romanToArabic: String =?> Int = {
    case src if Option(src).exists { s => {
      s.nonEmpty && """[^MDCLXVI]""".r.findFirstMatchIn(s.toUpperCase).isEmpty
    }
    } =>

      @scala.annotation.tailrec
      def convert(left: String, cont: Int = 0, code: List[(Int, String)] = codeTable): Int = {
        val (unitVal, unitChar) = code.head
        left.splitAt(unitChar.length) match {
          case ("", _) => cont
          case (`unitChar`, tail) => convert(tail, cont + unitVal, code)
          case _ => convert(left, cont, code.tail)
        }
      }

      convert(src.toUpperCase())
  }
}

object PowMod {
  def naivePowMod(a: Long, k: Long, m: Long): Long = {
    var t: Long = 1
    val aMod: Long = a % m

    for (_ <- 1L to k) {
      t = ((t % m) * aMod) % m
    }
    t.toInt
  }

  def powMod(a: Long, k: Long, m: Long): Long = {
    if (k == 0) 1
    else {
      val t = powMod(a, k / 2, m)
      if ((k % 2) == 0) (t * t) % m else (((t * t) % m) * a) % m
    }
  }
}