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Solution: Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks

Explore how to use a min heap to solve the minimum cost to connect sticks problem. Understand how repeatedly merging the two shortest sticks minimizes total cost and how heap operations manage the process efficiently for optimal solutions.

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} ...