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Solution: Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks

Explore how to use a min heap to solve the problem of connecting sticks with minimum cost. Learn to repeatedly merge the two shortest sticks, track cumulative costs, and implement this efficient O(n log n) solution.

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} ...