Call your function closestpair defined as follows double clo

Call your function closest_pair(), defined as follows: double closest_pair(double[] a)

The return value is the distance between the closest pair of values in the array.

This is what I have so far. Not sure where to go from here.

public class Exercise_1_4_16 {

   public static double closest_pair(double[] a) {

       // Your code here.

       double least = Double.MAX_VALUE;

       double a1 = a[0];

       double a2 = a[1];

       for(int i = 0; i<a.length - 1; i++){

           double closePair = Math.abs(a[i] - a[i + 1]);

           if(closePair < least){

               a1 = a[i];

               a2 = a[i + 1];

               least = closePair;

           }

       }

       double a3 = a2 - a1;

       return a3;

   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {

       double[] a = StdIn.readAllDoubles();

       StdOut.printf(\"%6.4f\", closest_pair(a));

   }

}

Solution

// java code

public class Exercise_1_4_16
{
    public static double closest_pair(double[] array)
    {

        // Your code here.
        double minimum_distance = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
        double [] a = array;
        int sizeArray = a.length;
        for(int i=0; i< sizeArray; i++)
        {
            for(int j=i+1; j< sizeArray;j++)
            {
                minimum_distance = Math.min(minimum_distance, Math.abs( a[i]-a[j]));
            }
        }
        return minimum_distance;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        double[] a = {-1,2,23,10,16};
        System.out.printf(\"Closest distance: %6.4f\ \", closest_pair(a));
    }
}

/*
output:

Closest distance: 3.0000

*/