Drawing Contest

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Liliputs are holding a drawing competition for K kids, but with K human-sized pencils stolen from humans. In order to make life easier for the kids, the organizers want to give a pencil to each kid in a way such that the sum of the absolute differences of the height of a kid and the length of the pencil assigned to him/her is minimized. What is the minimum sum of absolute differences that can be a

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