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Solution: Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks

Explore how to determine the minimum cost required to connect all sticks into one by merging the two shortest sticks iteratively using a min heap. Understand how this approach optimizes the merging process and time complexity to efficiently solve the problem.

Statement

You are given a set of sticks with positive integer lengths represented as an array, sticks, where sticks[i] denotes the length of the ithi^{th} ...