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Solution: Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks

Explore how to find the minimum cost to connect sticks by efficiently merging the two shortest sticks at each step. Learn to use a min heap to optimize your solution while tracking cumulative merge costs, preparing you to solve dynamic data problems with heaps.

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 ithi^{th} ...