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Solution: Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks

Discover how to calculate the minimum cost to connect all sticks into one by repeatedly merging the two shortest sticks using a min heap. This lesson teaches you to apply heap data structures for efficient selection and merging, ensuring optimal cumulative cost while understanding the algorithm's time and space complexity.

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} ...