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Solution: Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks

Understand how to calculate the minimum cost of connecting sticks by repeatedly merging the two shortest sticks using a min heap. This lesson helps you apply heap data structures to optimize merging processes and track costs effectively.

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} ...