Koko Eating Bananas
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What is Koko Eating Bananas?
Koko can eat at most k bananas per hour and must finish all piles within h hours. Find the minimum k. The answer lies in a range, and you can binary search on that range, checking for each candidate k whether it is feasible. This problem teaches you to binary search on the answer rather than on the input array, a shift in thinking that unlocks many harder problems.
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Can I learn Koko Eating Bananas in Hindi?
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Is this Koko Eating Bananas tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 37 of 137 in the free LeetCode roadmap, in stage 7, Binary Search. If you are new to LeetCode, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.