Squares of a Sorted Array

Given an array of integers A sorted in non-decreasing order, return an array of the squares of each number, also in sorted non-decreasing order.

Example 1:

Input: [-4,-1,0,3,10]
Output: [0,1,9,16,100]

Example 2:

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

Note:

  1. 1 <= A.length <= 10000

  2. -10000 <= A[i] <= 10000

  3. A is sorted in non-decreasing order.

class Solution {
    public int[] sortedSquares(int[] A) {
        int p1 = 0, p2 = A.length - 1;
        int[] ans = new int[A.length];
        int index = A.length - 1;
        while (p1 <= p2) {
            if (A[p1] * A[p1] > A[p2] * A[p2])
                ans[index--] = A[p1] * A[p1++];
            else
                ans[index--] = A[p2] * A[p2--];
        }
        return ans;
    }
}

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