Leetcode Problem 1760. Minimum Limit of Balls in a Bag

1760. Minimum Limit of Balls in a Bag

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Binary Search to Minimize Maximum Bag Size

  1. Initialize left to 1 and right to the maximum number of balls in any bag.
  2. While left is less than right: a. Calculate mid as the average of left and right. b. Initialize operations to 0. c. Iterate over each bag in nums: i. Calculate the number of operations needed to reduce the current bag to a size of mid or less. ii. Add this number to operations. d. If operations is less than or equal to maxOperations, update right to mid. e. Otherwise, update left to mid + 1.
  3. Return left as the minimum possible penalty.
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