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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in Python

Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks

Explore how to apply heap data structures to find the minimum cost of connecting sticks. This lesson helps you understand the problem and implement an optimal solution using coding patterns commonly tested in technical interviews.

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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} ...