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You are playing a game with your friend Ajay where Ajay gave you an array 'A' consisting of 'N' integers such that all the elements of the array does not exceed the value 'K'.Ajay has asked you to replace the minimum number of elements (replacement is the following operation: choose some index i from 1 to n and replace a[i] with some integer in range [1;k] ) to satisfy the following conditions:after all replacements, all a[i] are positive integers not greater than k;for all i from 1 to n/2 the following equation is true: a[i]+a[n]−i+1=x, where x should be the same for all n/2 pairs of elements.Note: It is guaranteed that 'N' is even.Input FormatThe first line contains two integers n and k — the length of a and the maximum possible value of some a[i] correspondingly. It is guratanteed that n is even .The second line of the test case contains n integers a1,a2,…,an, where ai is the i-th element of a.Constraints2≤n≤2⋅10^51≤k≤2⋅10^51≤a[i]≤kOutput FormatPrint the integer — the minimum number of elements you have to replace in a to satisfy the conditions from the problem statement.Sample Input 04 41 1 3 1Sample Output 01Sample Input 16 71 1 1 1 2 2Sample Output 11

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You are playing a game with your friend Ajay where Ajay gave you an array 'A' consisting of 'N' integers such that all the elements of the array does not exceed the value 'K'.Ajay has asked you to replace the minimum number of elements (replacement is the following operation: choose some index i from 1 to n and replace a[i] with some integer in range [1;k] ) to satisfy the following conditions:after all replacements, all a[i] are positive integers not greater than k;for all i from 1 to n/2 the following equation is true: a[i]+a[n]−i+1=x, where x should be the same for all n/2 pairs of elements.Note: It is guaranteed that 'N' is even.Input FormatThe first line contains two integers n and k — the length of a and the maximum possible value of some a[i] correspondingly. It is guratanteed that n is even .The second line of the test case contains n integers a1,a2,…,an, where ai is the i-th element of a.Constraints2≤n≤2⋅10^51≤k≤2⋅10^51≤a[i]≤kOutput FormatPrint the integer — the minimum number of elements you have to replace in a to satisfy the conditions from the problem statement.Sample Input 04 41 1 3 1Sample Output 01Sample Input 16 71 1 1 1 2 2Sample Output 11

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This problem is a competitive programming problem and can be solved using a frequency array and prefix sum array. Here is a step-by-step solution:

  1. Parse the input: Read the values of 'n' and 'k'. Then, read the array 'a' of size 'n'.

  2. Initialize a frequency array of size '2k+2' with all values as 0. This array will be used to store the frequency of sums 'a[i] + a[n-i+1]'.

  3. Initialize a prefix sum array of size '2k+2' with all values as 0. This array will be used to store the prefix sum of the frequency array.

  4. Iterate over the array 'a' from 1 to n/2 and for each pair (a[i], a[n-i+1]), increment the frequency of their sum in the frequency array and update the prefix sum array.

  5. Initialize two variables, 'min_replacements' and 'current_replacements' to store the minimum number of replacements required and the current number of replacements respectively.

  6. Iterate over the possible values of 'x' from 2 to 2k. For each 'x', calculate the number of replacements required to make all pairs sum up to 'x'. This can be done by adding the number of elements that are less than 'x' and the number of elements that are greater than 'x' to 'current_replacements'. Update 'min_replacements' with the minimum of 'min_replacements' and 'current_replacements'.

  7. Print the value of 'min_replacements' which is the minimum number of replacements required to satisfy the conditions.

This solution works in O(n) time complexity and O(k) space complexity.

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