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Merge Sort: Counting Inversions

In an array, , the elements at indices and (where ) form an inversion if . In other words, inverted elements and are considered to be "out of order". To correct an inversion, we can swap adjacent elements.

For example, consider the dataset . It has two inversions: and . To sort the array, we must perform the following two swaps to correct the inversions:

Given datasets, print the number of inversions that must be swapped to sort each dataset on a new line.

Function Description

Complete the function countInversions in the editor below. It must return an integer representing the number of inversions required to sort the array.

countInversions has the following parameter(s):

  • arr: an array of integers to sort .

Input Format

The first line contains an integer, , the number of datasets.

Each of the next pairs of lines is as follows:

  1. The first line contains an integer, , the number of elements in .
  2. The second line contains space-separated integers, .

Constraints

Output Format

For each of the datasets, return the number of inversions that must be swapped to sort the dataset.

Sample Input

2  
5  
1 1 1 2 2  
5  
2 1 3 1 2

Sample Output

0  
4

Explanation

We sort the following datasets:

  1. is already sorted, so there are no inversions for us to correct. Thus, we print on a new line.

We performed a total of swaps to correct inversions.