Method closestPrimes

ClosestPrimeNumbersInRange.java:2–37

(int left, int right)

class Solution {
    public int[] closestPrimes(int left, int right) {
        // O(R log(logR) + R-L)
        
        // Sieve algorithm to find prime numbers between [1,right]
        boolean prime[] = new boolean[right + 1];
        Arrays.fill(prime,true);
        prime[0] = false;
        prime[1] = false;
        // Sieve-> O(R log(logR))
        for (int p = 2; p * p <= right; p++) {
            if (prime[p]) {
                for (int i = p * p; i <= right; i += p)
                    prime[i] = false;
            }
        }
        // R-L
        // find min diff b/w pair of prime numbers
        int res[] = new int[]{-1,-1};
        int minDiff = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
        int prev=-1;
        for (int i = left; i <= right; i++) {
            if (prime[i]){
                if(prev == -1){
                    prev = i;
                }else{
                    if(i - prev < minDiff){
                        res[0] = prev;
                        res[1] = i;
                        minDiff = i-prev;
                    }
                    prev=i;
                }
            }
        }
        return res;
    }
}