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Solution: Koko Eating Bananas

Explore how to apply modified binary search to efficiently find the minimum banana-eating speed for Koko to finish within a given time. This lesson helps you understand leveraging monotonic properties in search problems to optimize performance and solve constraints effectively.

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Statement

Koko has nn piles of bananas in front of her, where the ithi^{th} pile has piles[i] bananas. The guards have left and will return in h hours, and Koko must finish all the bananas before they come back.

Before eating, Koko chooses an integer as an eating speed kk ...