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HackerRank | Minimum Distances

  We define the distance between two array values as the number of indices between the two values. Given   , find the minimum distance between any pair of equal elements in the array. If no such value exists, print   . For example, if  , there are two matching pairs of values:  . The indices of the  's are   and  , so their distance is  . The indices of the  's are   and  , so their distance is  . Function Description Complete the  minimumDistances  function in the editor below. It should return the minimum distance between any two matching elements. minimumDistances has the following parameter(s): a : an array of integers Input Format The first line contains an integer  , the size of array  . The second line contains   space-separated integers  . Constraints Output Format Print a single integer denoting the minimum   in  . If no such value exists, print  . S...