Problem · String
Get Minimum Operations
Learn this problemProblem statement
Implement a function that returns the minimum number of operations needed to ensure the string s (of length n) contains no segments of exactly m consecutive '0's.
In one operation, you can do the following:
- Select a contiguous segment of length
kand make every bit in this segment '1'.
The function getMinOperations will take three inputs:
- string
s: a string representings. - int
m: an integer representingm. - int
k: an integer representingk.
The function should return an integer representing the minimum number of operations needed.
Function
getMinOperations(s: String, m: int, k: int) → intExamples
Example 1
s = "000000"m = 3k = 2return = 1We can perform an operation on the interval [3, 4] (1-based indexing) to get "001100", ensuring no segment of consecutive 0s has a length ≥ 3. Thus, the answer is 1.
Constraints
1 ≤ n ≤ 2 * 10^51 ≤ m, k ≤ n
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