1167. Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks

LeetCode

Greedy, Min heap, PriorityQueue

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class Solution {
public int connectSticks(int[] sticks) {
PriorityQueue<Integer> q=new PriorityQueue<>();
for(int i:sticks) q.offer(i);
int res=0;
while(q.size()>1){
int a=q.poll();
int b=q.poll();
int sum=a+b;
res+=sum;
q.offer(sum);
}
return res;
}
}

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