DIY: Divide Chocolate
Explore how to solve the problem of dividing a chocolate bar with sweetness values among friends by making optimal cuts. Learn to implement an algorithm that maximizes the minimum sweetness piece you receive, a common interview question that helps you understand binary search and partitioning techniques.
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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 ...