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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.

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 ...