#include <iostream> #include <cstdio> #include <cstring> #include <cmath> using namespace std; const int maxn=5e4+9; int maxrmq[maxn][20],minrmq[maxn][20],a[maxn]; int n,q; void getrmq() { for(int i=1;i<=n;i++) minrmq[i][0]=maxrmq[i][0]=a[i]; for(int i=1;(1<<i)<=n;i++) for(int j=1;j+(1<<i)-1<=n;j++) { maxrmq[j][i]=max(maxrmq[j][i-1],maxrmq[j+(1<<i-1)][i-1]); minrmq[j][i]=min(minrmq[j][i-1],minrmq[j+(1<<i-1)][i-1]); } } int askrmq(int t,int s) { int k=log(s-t+1)/log(2); int mmax=max(maxrmq[t][k],maxrmq[s-(1<<k)+1][k]); int mmin=min(minrmq[t][k],minrmq[s-(1<<k)+1][k]); return mmax-mmin; } int main() { // freopen("in.txt","r",stdin); while(scanf("%d %d",&n,&q)!=EOF) { for(int i=1;i<=n;i++) scanf("%d",&a[i]); getrmq(); for(int i=1,t,s;i<=q;i++) { scanf("%d %d",&t,&s); printf("%d\n",askrmq(t,s)); } } return 0; }