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Number of Steps to Reduce a Binary Number to One

Explore how to apply greedy techniques to reduce a binary number to one by dividing even numbers by two or adding one to odd numbers. Understand the problem constraints, and implement a strategy to count the steps needed using an efficient approach.

Statement

You are given a string, str, as a binary representation of an integer. Your task is to return the number of steps needed to reduce it to ...