Problem: 2062C - Cirno and Operations
Language: java

Solution 1 (runtime: 280 ms):
import java.util.*;
public class Solution{
    static int max=0;
    public static long sumCalc(ArrayList<Long> list){
        long sum=0;
        int i=1;
                
         while(i<list.size()){
            long v=list.get(i)-list.get(i-1);
            list.set(i-1,v);
            sum+=v;
            i++;
        }
        
        list.remove(list.size()-1);
        
        return sum;
    }
    public static void main(String args[]){
        Scanner sc=new Scanner(System.in);
        
        int t=sc.nextInt();
        
        for(int test=0;test<t;test++){
            int n=sc.nextInt();
            ArrayList<Long> list=new ArrayList<>();
           
            long sum=0;
            for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
                long val=sc.nextLong();
                list.add(val);
                sum+=val;
            }
            
            long max=sum;
            while(list.size()>1){
                long ans=sumCalc(list);
                max=Math.max(ans,max);
                sum=0;
                for(int i=0;i<list.size();i++){
                    sum+=(-1)*list.get(i);
                }
                
                max=Math.max(sum,max);
            }
            
            System.out.println(max);
        }
    }
}

Solution 2 (runtime: 249 ms):
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.math.*;

public class sub {

	// can i get expert by summer please

	static int mod = 998244353;

	public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
		int t = sc.nextInt();
		while (t-- > 0) {
			int n = sc.nextInt();
			ArrayList<Long> a = new ArrayList();
			if (n == 1) {
				out.println(sc.nextInt());
			} else {
				long ans = 0;
				for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
					a.add(sc.nextLong());
					ans+=a.get(i);
				}
				for (int i = 1; i < n; i++) {
					ArrayList<Long> copy = new ArrayList();
					for(int j = 0;j<a.size()-1;j++) {
						copy.add(a.get(j) - a.get(j + 1));
					}
					a=copy;
					long sum = 0;
					for (int j = 0; j < a.size(); j++) {
						sum += a.get(j);
					}
					if(sum<0) {
						Collections.reverse(a);
					}
					
					ans=Math.max(ans,Math.abs(sum));
				}
				out.println(ans);
			}
		}
		out.close();
	}

//	static long bincoef(int n, int k) {
//	    if (n < k) return 0L;
//	    return (p[n] * pow((p[n - k] * p[k]) % mod, mod - 2, mod)) % mod;
//	}

	static long pow(long a, long b, long mod) {
		if (b == 0) {
			return 1L;
		}
		long val = pow(a, b / 2, mod);
		if (b % 2 == 0) {
			return val * val % mod;
		}
		return val * val % mod * a % mod;
	}

	static long gcd(long a, long b) {
		if (b == 0) {
			return a;
		}
		return gcd(b, a % b);
	}

	static long lcm(long a, long b) {
		return a * b / gcd(a, b);
	}

	static Kattio sc = new Kattio();
	static PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(System.out);

	static class Kattio {

		static BufferedReader r;
		static StringTokenizer st;

		public Kattio() {
			r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
		}

		public String next() {
			try {
				while (st == null || !st.hasMoreTokens()) {
					st = new StringTokenizer(r.readLine());
				}
				return st.nextToken();
			} catch (Exception e) {
				return null;
			}
		}

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

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

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