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How Out of Order

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Description

This was submitted by user Hackleman.

Determine how "out of order" a list is by writing a function that returns the number of inversions in that list.

Two elements of a list L, L[i] and L[j], form an inversion if L[i] < L[j] but i > j.

For example, the list [5, 4, 3, 2, 1] has 10 inversions since every element is out of order. They are the following: (5, 4), (5,3), (5,2), (5,1), (4,3), (4,2), (4,1), (3,2), (3,1), (2,1).

The list [2, 1, 4, 3, 5] has two inversions: (2, 1) and (4, 3).

Do this in better than O(N^2).

Constraints
  • Length of the given array <= 100000
  • Values in the array ranges from -1000000000 to 1000000000
  • Expected time complexity : O(nlogn)
  • Expected space complexity : O(1)
```js
// Please enter your coding solution here.
function inversions(list) {
  // return # of inversions
  return count;
}
// Though at AlgoDaily we have a strong bias towards Javascript,
// feel free to use any language you'd like!
```

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