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Solution: Minimum Replacements to Sort the Array

Understand how to convert an unsorted array into a non-decreasing order with the fewest replacement operations by applying greedy techniques. Explore the strategy of splitting larger elements based on adjacent smaller values and traversing the array from right to left to maintain sorted order efficiently.

Statement

You are given a 0-indexed integer array nums. You are allowed to perform the following operation any number of times:

  • Select any element in the array and replace it with two positive integers whose sum is equal to the selected element.

For example, if the array is nums = [5, 6, 7], you can choose the element 6 and replace it with 2 ...