0977. Squares of a Sorted Array

https://leetcode.com/problems/squares-of-a-sorted-array

Description

Given an integer array nums sorted in non-decreasing order, return an array of the squares of each number sorted in non-decreasing order.

Example 1:

**Input:** nums = [-4,-1,0,3,10]
**Output:** [0,1,9,16,100]
**Explanation:** After squaring, the array becomes [16,1,0,9,100].
After sorting, it becomes [0,1,9,16,100].

Example 2:

**Input:** nums = [-7,-3,2,3,11]
**Output:** [4,9,9,49,121]

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 104

• -104 <= nums[i] <= 104

• nums is sorted in non-decreasing order.

Follow up: Squaring each element and sorting the new array is very trivial, could you find an O(n) solution using a different approach?

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