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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns

Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks

Understand how to use heaps to solve the problem of connecting sticks at minimum cost. Explore the approach of repeatedly combining the two smallest sticks to minimize overall cost, a common pattern in coding interviews involving dynamic data processing and efficient use of data structures.

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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} ...