Solution: Minimum Number of K Consecutive Bit Flips

Understand how to solve the problem of making all bits in a binary array equal to one by flipping k consecutive bits. Explore the optimization of tracking flips with a queue, handling bit states, and ensuring minimal total flips in linear time.

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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 $1$ . However, we can only flip k consecutive bits at a time. So, for a binary array $[1, 1, 0, 0]$ and k = $2$ , we can flip the last two bits to get $[1, 1, 1, 1]$ . This means we only need a single k flip to turn the entire array into all $1$ s.

If nums cannot be converted to an array with all ...