Change Due

Easy · rating 800 · Math

A customer buys an item costing cost cents and pays with paid cents. Read the two space-separated integers cost and paid (with paid ≥ cost). Print the change to return, in cents.

Constraints: 0 ≤ cost ≤ paid ≤ 109

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Approach

Change owed is just what was paid minus what it cost. A single subtraction answers it.

cost, paid = map(int, input().split())
print(paid - cost)

Complexity

Time: O(1). Space: O(1).

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