1000.Minimum Cost to Merge Stones(合并石头的最低成本)
Description
There are N
piles of stones arranged in a row. The i
-th pile has stones[i]
stones.
A move consists of merging exactly K
consecutive piles into one pile, and the cost of this move is equal to the total number of stones in these K
piles.
Find the minimum cost to merge all piles of stones into one pile. If it is impossible, return
-1
.
有 N
堆石头排成一排,第 i
堆中有 stones[i]
块石头。
每次移动(move)需要将连续的 K
堆石头合并为一堆,而这个移动的成本为这 K
堆石头的总数。
找出把所有石头合并成一堆的最低成本。如果不可能,返回 -1
。
题目链接:https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-cost-to-merge-stones/
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Difficulty: hard
Example 1:
Input: stones = [3,2,4,1], K = 2
Output: 20
Explanation:
We start with [3, 2, 4, 1].
We merge [3, 2] for a cost of 5, and we are left with [5, 4, 1].
We merge [4, 1] for a cost of 5, and we are left with [5, 5].
We merge [5, 5] for a cost of 10, and we are left with [10].
The total cost was 20, and this is the minimum possible.
Example 2:
Input: stones = [3,2,4,1], K = 3
Output: -1
Explanation: After any merge operation, there are 2 piles left, and we can't merge anymore. So the task is impossible.
Example 3:
Input: stones = [3,5,1,2,6], K = 3
Output: 25
Explanation:
We start with [3, 5, 1, 2, 6].
We merge [5, 1, 2] for a cost of 8, and we are left with [3, 8, 6].
We merge [3, 8, 6] for a cost of 17, and we are left with [17].
The total cost was 25, and this is the minimum possible.
Note:
- 1 <= stones.length <= 30
- 2 <= K <= 30
- 1 <= stones[i] <= 100
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