Medium
,Array
,Heap
1962. Remove Stones to Minimize the Total
You are given a 0-indexed integer array piles
, where piles[i]
represents the number of stones in the ith pile, and an integer k
. You should apply the following operation exactly k
times:
piles[i]
and remove floor(piles[i] / 2)
stones from it.Notice that you can apply the operation on the same pile more than once.
Return the minimum possible total number of stones remaining after applying the k
operations.
floor(x)
is the greatest integer that is smaller than or equal to x
(i.e., rounds x down).
Example 1:
Input: piles = [5,4,9], k = 2
Output: 12
Explanation: Steps of a possible scenario are:
- Apply the operation on pile 2. The resulting piles are [5,4,5].
- Apply the operation on pile 0. The resulting piles are [3,4,5].
The total number of stones in [3,4,5] is 12.
Example 2:
Input: piles = [4,3,6,7], k = 3
Output: 12
Explanation: Steps of a possible scenario are:
- Apply the operation on pile 2. The resulting piles are [4,3,3,7].
- Apply the operation on pile 3. The resulting piles are [4,3,3,4].
- Apply the operation on pile 0. The resulting piles are [2,3,3,4].
The total number of stones in [2,3,3,4] is 12.
Constraints:
piles.length
<= 105piles[i]
<= 104k
<= 105
class Solution:
def minStoneSum(self, piles: List[int], k: int) -> int:
heap = [-pile for pile in piles]
heapq.heapify(heap)
while k:
p = heapq.heappop(heap)
heapq.heappush(heap, p // 2)
k -= 1
return -sum(heap)
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