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

/**
 * Built using CHelper plug-in
 * Actual solution is at the top
 */
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        InputStream inputStream = System.in;
        OutputStream outputStream = System.out;
        InputReader in = new InputReader(inputStream);
        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outputStream);
        Task solver = new Task();
        solver.solve(1, in, out);
        out.close();
    }

    static class Task {
        public void solve(int testNumber, InputReader in, PrintWriter out) {
            int N = in.nextInt();
            int x[] = new int[N];
            for(int i=0; i<N; i++){
                x[i] = in.nextInt();
            }
            Arrays.sort(x);
            long min=10000000L;
            for(int i=1; i<N; i++){
                if(x[i]-x[i-1]<min&&x[i]-x[i-1]>0){
                    min=x[i]-x[i-1];
                }
            }
            if(min==10000000L) out.println(0);
            else out.println(min);
        }

    }

    static class InputReader {
        public BufferedReader reader;
        public StringTokenizer tokenizer;

        public InputReader(InputStream stream) {
            reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream), 32768);
            tokenizer = null;
        }

        public String next() {
            while (tokenizer == null || !tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
                try {
                    tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(reader.readLine());
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
                }
            }
            return tokenizer.nextToken();
        }

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

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

    }
}