USACO 1.4 Ski Course Design Python3

"""
ID: ***
LANG: PYTHON3
TASK: skidesign
"""
import math as m

fin = open('skidesign.in', 'r')
fout = open('skidesign.out', 'w')
N = int(fin.readline())
costlist = list()
hills = list()
for x in range(N):
    hills.append(int(fin.readline()))
hills.sort()
for x in range(hills[0], hills[N-1]-17):
    #landmark hills[x]
    cost = 0
    for y in range(N):
        if hills[y] < x:
            cost += m.pow(hills[y]-x,2)
        if hills[y] > x+17:
            cost += m.pow(hills[y]-x-17,2)
    costlist.append(cost)
    #print("final cost {} is {}".format(x+1, cost))
costlist.sort()
if len(costlist) == 0:
    costlist.append(0)
fout.write("{}\n".format(int(costlist[0])))
fout.close()