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Solution: Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks

Explore how to find the minimum cost to connect all sticks by repeatedly merging the two shortest sticks using a min heap. Understand how this approach minimizes cumulative costs and allows you to implement an efficient solution with O(n log n) time complexity, preparing you for coding interviews focused on heap data structures and optimization problems.

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} ...