Solution: Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks
Explore how to calculate the minimum cost of connecting sticks by repeatedly merging the two shortest sticks using a min heap. Understand the algorithm's logic, implementation with heapq, and its time and space complexity for optimal problem solving.
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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