You are given an integer array nums
and two integers, x
and k
. You can perform the following operation any number of times (including zero):
nums
by 1.Return the minimum number of operations needed to have at least k
non-overlapping subarrays of size exactly x
in nums
, where all elements within each subarray are equal.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [5,-2,1,3,7,3,6,4,-1], x = 3, k = 2
Output: 8
Explanation:
nums[1]
and use 2 operations to subtract 2 from nums[3]
. The resulting array is [5, 1, 1, 1, 7, 3, 6, 4, -1]
.nums[5]
and use 2 operations to subtract 2 from nums[6]
. The resulting array is [5, 1, 1, 1, 7, 4, 4, 4, -1]
.[1, 1, 1]
(from indices 1 to 3) and [4, 4, 4]
(from indices 5 to 7) are equal. Since 8 total operations were used, 8 is the output.Example 2:
Input: nums = [9,-2,-2,-2,1,5], x = 2, k = 2
Output: 3
Explanation:
nums[4]
. The resulting array is [9, -2, -2, -2, -2, 5]
.[-2, -2]
(from indices 1 to 2) and [-2, -2]
(from indices 3 to 4) are equal. Since 3 operations were used, 3 is the output.
Constraints:
2 <= nums.length <= 105
-106 <= nums[i] <= 106
2 <= x <= nums.length
1 <= k <= 15
2 <= k * x <= nums.length