#include<cstdio>
#include<algorithm>
#include<cmath>
using namespace std;
#define maxn 1000010
long long A[maxn], tmp[maxn];
int main() {
int n;
while(scanf("%d",&n) == 1) {
long long sum = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
scanf("%lld",&A[i]);
sum += A[i];
}
long long average = sum / n;
tmp[0] = 0;
for(int i = 1; i < n; i++)
tmp[i] = tmp[i-1] + A[i] - average;
sort(tmp,tmp+n);
long long t = tmp[n/2];
long long ans = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < n; i++)
ans += fabs(t - tmp[i]);
printf("%lld\n",ans);
}
return 0;
}