#include #define rep(i,a,b) for(int i=a;i=b;i--) #define fore(i,a) for(auto &i:a) #define all(x) (x).begin(),(x).end() //#pragma GCC optimize ("-O3") using namespace std; void _main(); int main() { cin.tie(0); ios::sync_with_stdio(false); _main(); } typedef long long ll; const int inf = INT_MAX / 2; const ll infl = 1LL << 60; templatebool chmax(T& a, const T& b) { if (a < b) { a = b; return 1; } return 0; } templatebool chmin(T& a, const T& b) { if (b < a) { a = b; return 1; } return 0; } //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- template using min_priority_queue = priority_queue, greater>; template struct MedianStructure { min_priority_queue bigger; T sm_bigger = 0; priority_queue smaller; T sm_smaller = 0; T center; int cnt = 0; void add(T v) { if (cnt == 0) center = v; else if (cnt == 1) { bigger.push(max(center, v)); sm_bigger += max(center, v); smaller.push(min(center, v)); sm_smaller += min(center, v); }else if (cnt % 2 == 0) { vector vec; T a; a = bigger.top(); vec.push_back(a); bigger.pop(); sm_bigger -= a; a = smaller.top(); vec.push_back(a); smaller.pop(); sm_smaller -= a; vec.push_back(v); sort(all(vec)); smaller.push(vec[0]); sm_smaller += vec[0]; center = vec[1]; bigger.push(vec[2]); sm_bigger += vec[2]; } else { vector vec; T a; a = bigger.top(); vec.push_back(a); bigger.pop(); sm_bigger -= a; a = smaller.top(); vec.push_back(a); smaller.pop(); sm_smaller -= a; vec.push_back(v); vec.push_back(center); sort(all(vec)); smaller.push(vec[0]); sm_smaller += vec[0]; smaller.push(vec[1]); sm_smaller += vec[1]; bigger.push(vec[2]); sm_bigger += vec[2]; bigger.push(vec[3]); sm_bigger += vec[3]; } cnt++; } T getMedianGetSmall() { if (cnt % 2 == 0) return smaller.top(); else return center; } T getMedian() { if (cnt % 2 == 0) return (smaller.top() + bigger.top()) / 2; else return center; } }; /*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------             ∧_∧       ∧_∧  (´<_` )  Welcome to My Coding Space!      ( ´_ゝ`) /  ⌒i @hamayanhamayan0     /   \    | |     /   / ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄/  |   __(__ニつ/  _/ .| .|____      \/____/ (u ⊃ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ int N, A[201010]; //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- void _main() { cin >> N; rep(i, 0, N) cin >> A[i]; rep(i, 0, N) A[i] *= 2; sort(A, A + N); ll ans = -infl; rep(_, 0, 2) { vector v; rep(i, 0, N / 2) { v.push_back(A[i]); v.push_back(A[N - 1 - i]); } if (N % 2 == 1) v.push_back(A[N / 2]); ll tot = 0; MedianStructure ms; rep(i, 0, N) { ll k = i + 1; tot += v[i]; ms.add(v[i]); ll S = tot - ms.getMedian() * k; chmax(ans, S); } reverse(all(v)); } ans /= 2; cout << ans << endl; }