Suppose an array contains n elements. We want to know, for every element in the array, the position of the leftmost element that is smaller than that one.
An example:
Position: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The array: 20 3 10 5 1 9 100 Answer: 0 0 2 2 0 2 1
Can this problem be done in O(n)?