Given a nonempty vector A, find the element whose distance from the mean of A is greatest. Return the element, not its distance. If there’s a tie, return the first such element.
Example:
Input: A = [5, 2, 1, 5, 6, 2, 5, 9]
Output: 9
The mean is 4.375, and 9 is farthest from it.
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