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Solution: Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks

Understand how to solve the minimum cost to connect sticks problem by applying heap data structures. Explore the strategy of merging the two shortest sticks at each step to ensure an optimal and efficient solution with minimal cumulative cost.

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} ...