Solution: Divide Chocolate
Explore how to apply modified binary search to divide a chocolate bar into pieces with maximum guaranteed minimum sweetness. Understand sliding window techniques and detail the process of guessing and validating sweetness values. This lesson helps you solve partition problems efficiently while mastering problem-solving strategies related to binary search adaptations.
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Statement
You have a chocolate bar made up of several chunks, and each chunk has a certain sweetness, given in an array called sweetness. You want to share the chocolate with k friends. To do this, you’ll make k cuts to divide the bar into k + 1 parts. Each part will consist of consecutive chunks.
Being a kind person, you’ll take the piece with the minimum total sweetness and give the other pieces to your friends.
Your task is to find the maximum total sweetness of the piece you will receive if you cut the chocolate bar optimally.
Constraints:
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