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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in Go

Solution: Koko Eating Bananas

Explore a binary search approach to find the minimum eating speed that enables Koko to finish all piles of bananas within a specified timeframe. Understand how to leverage problem monotonicity to efficiently narrow down the speed range, and analyze time and space complexity for the solution.

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Statement

Koko has nn piles of bananas in front of her, where the ithi^{th} pile has piles[i] bananas. The guards have left and will return in h hours, and Koko must finish all the bananas before they come back.

Before eating, Koko chooses an integer as an eating speed kk ...