Solution: Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks
Understand how to calculate the minimum cost to connect sticks by applying a min heap to merge the smallest sticks first. This lesson guides you through implementing an optimal algorithm that efficiently manages dynamic data and tracks cumulative costs.
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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