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Solution: Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks

Understand how to use a min heap to solve the minimum cost to connect sticks problem by repeatedly merging the two shortest sticks. This lesson guides you through applying heaps to minimize cumulative costs and improve efficiency in coding challenges.

Statement

You are given a set of sticks with positive integer lengths represented as an array, sticks, where sticks[i] denotes the length of the ithi^{th} ...