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Solution: Minimum Number of K Consecutive Bit Flips

Explore how to solve the problem of flipping K consecutive bits in a binary array to convert all bits to one. Understand the step-by-step process to minimize flips, track flip impacts using a queue, and handle cases where the transformation is impossible. This lesson guides you through an efficient O(n) time and O(k) space complexity solution leveraging bitwise manipulation techniques.

Statement

We are given a binary arrayAn array consisting of 0s and 1s only. nums and an integer k. Our task is to find the minimum number of flipsChanging a 0 to a 1 or a 1 to a 0. needed to make all the bits in the array equal to 11. However, we can only flip k consecutive bits at a time. So, for a binary array [1,1,0 ...