FastPrepMinimum Cost of Left and Right Propagation

Minimum Cost of Left and Right Propagation

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Problem statement

You are given a positive integer array values. You may perform either propagation operation any number of times and in any order:

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Example 1

values = [5,2,4]return = 4

Keep the middle value 2, propagate it left for cost 2, and propagate it right for another cost 2.

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