Divide Chocolate
Explore how to use modified binary search to optimally divide a chocolate bar among friends by maximizing the smallest sweetness piece you receive. This lesson guides you through problem understanding, constraints, and implementing a solution to prepare for related coding interview questions.
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Statement
You have a chocolate bar made up of several chunks, and each chunk has a certain sweetness, given in an array called sweetness. You want to share the chocolate with k friends. To do this, you’ll make k cuts to divide the bar into k + 1 parts. Each part will consist of consecutive chunks.
Being a kind person, you’ll take the piece with the minimum total sweetness and give the other pieces to your friends.
Your task is to find the maximum total sweetness of the piece you will receive if you cut the chocolate bar optimally.
Constraints:
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