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Solution: Minimum Number of K Consecutive Bit Flips

Understand how to solve the problem of flipping K consecutive bits to convert a binary array into all ones. Explore an efficient algorithm that tracks flipping states and uses a queue to minimize flips or determine impossibility. Gain insights on time and space complexity in bitwise operations.

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We are given a binary arrayAn array consisting of 0s and 1s only. nums and an integer k. Our task is to find the minimum number of flipsChanging a 0 to a 1 or a 1 to a 0. needed to make all the bits in the array equal to 11. However, we can only flip k consecutive bits at a time. So, for a binary array [1,1,0 ...