DIY: Divide Chocolate
Explore how to optimally cut a chocolate bar with given sweetness values into pieces, maximizing your minimum total sweetness. Learn to implement a function that calculates the best division to share chocolate fairly among friends while maximizing your own piece. This lesson develops problem-solving skills important for coding interviews.
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Problem statement
You have one chocolate bar that consists of some chunks. Each chunk has its own sweetness given by the array sweetness.
You have K friends that you want to share the chocolate with. You cut the chocolate using K cuts and get K + 1 pieces, where ...