#3724
Minimum Operations to Transform Array
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Description
You are given two integer arrays nums1 of length n and nums2 of length n + 1.
You want to transform nums1 into nums2 using the minimum number of operations.
You may perform the following operations any number of times, each time choosing an index i:
- Increase nums1[i] by 1.
- Decrease nums1[i] by 1.
- Append nums1[i] to the end of the array.
Return the minimum number of operations required to transform nums1 into nums2.
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