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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in C++

Solution: Min Cost Climbing Stairs

Understand how to solve the minimum cost climbing stairs problem using dynamic programming in C++. Learn to optimize space complexity by tracking only two previous costs and derive the minimum total cost to reach beyond the last stair.

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Statement

You are given an integer array, cost, where cost[i] represents the cost of stepping onto the ithi^{th} stair. After paying the cost of the stair you land on, you may climb either one or two steps forward. You may begin your climb from step 00 or step 11 ...