Find Minimum Operations to Make All Elements Divisible by Three
Easy
You receive an integer array nums.
In one operation, you can add or subtract 1 from any element of nums.
Find and provide the minimum count of operations to make all elements of nums divisible by 3.
Example 1
Input: nums = [1,2,3,4]
Output: 3
Explanation: All array elements can be made divisible by 3 using 3 operations:
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Subtract 1 from 1.
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Add 1 to 2.
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Subtract 1 from 4.
Example 2
Input: nums = [3,6,9]
Output: 0
Constraints
1 <= nums.length <= 501 <= nums[i] <= 50
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