Solution: Divide Chocolate
Discover how to use modified binary search to divide a chocolate bar among friends so that the minimum sweetness piece you receive is maximized. This lesson guides you through an efficient algorithm that guesses possible sweetness levels and checks feasibility, enabling you to solve partition problems with optimal time complexity and minimal space.
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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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