Amazon Minimum Cost to Connect Ropes
Amazon Minimum Cost to Connect Ropes
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Amazon connects packaging ropes. Cost of connecting two ropes = sum of their lengths. Find minimum total cost to connect all ropes into one.
Approach
Minimum cost to connect all ropes (always merge two smallest first — Huffman coding).
Input
4
4 3 2 6
Output
29
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