Leetcode Problem 1887. Reduction Operations to Make the Array Elements Equal

1887. Reduction Operations to Make the Array Elements Equal

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Counting Operations to Reduce Array Elements to the Minimum Element

  1. Sort the array nums in non-decreasing order.
  2. Initialize ans to 0, which will hold the total number of operations.
  3. Initialize up to 0, which will count the number of unique elements encountered so far.
  4. Iterate through the sorted array starting from the second element.
  5. If the current element is different from the previous one, increment up.
  6. Add up to ans for each element in the array.
  7. Return ans as the total number of operations.
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Iterative Reduction Using Priority Queue

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