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You are given an array nums
of positive integers. In one operation, you can choose any number from nums
and reduce it to exactly half the number. (Note that you may choose this reduced number in future operations.)
Return the minimum number of operations to reduce the sum of nums
by at least half.
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Example 1:
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Example 2:
\n\n\nInput: nums = [3,8,20]\nOutput: 3\nExplanation: The initial sum of nums is equal to 3 + 8 + 20 = 31.\nThe following is one of the ways to reduce the sum by at least half:\nPick the number 20 and reduce it to 10.\nPick the number 10 and reduce it to 5.\nPick the number 3 and reduce it to 1.5.\nThe final array is [1.5, 8, 5] with a total sum of 1.5 + 8 + 5 = 14.5. \nThe sum of nums has been reduced by 31 - 14.5 = 16.5, which is at least half of the initial sum, 16.5 >= 31/2 = 16.5.\nOverall, 3 operations were used so we return 3.\nIt can be shown that we cannot reduce the sum by at least half in less than 3 operations.\n\n\n
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Constraints:
\n\n1 <= nums.length <= 105
1 <= nums[i] <= 107
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