Programming Praxis

Given a list of integers, calculate a list of integers that contains, at each item of the list, the count of integers in the original list that are greater than the item at the current position of the original list. For example, given the input list (10 12 8 17 3 24 19), the desired output is (4 3 3 2 2 0 0), because at the first item in list, 10, there are four items (12 17 24 19) greater than 10, at the second item in the list, 12, there are three items (17 24 19) greater than 12, at the third item in the list, 8, there are three items (17 24 19) greater than 8, at the fourth item in the list, 17, there are two items (24 19) greater than 17, at the fifth item in the list, 3, there are two items (24 19) greater than 3, at the sixth item in the list, 24, there are 0 items () greater than 24, and at the seventh item in the list, 19, there are 0 items greater than 19.

Your task is to write a program to calculate the list of counts of greater than the current item; is there an O(n) solution? When you are finished, you are welcome to read a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.

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