You have some sticks
with positive integer lengths.
You can connect any two sticks of lengths X
and Y
into one stick by
paying a cost of X + Y
. You perform this action until there is one stick
remaining.
Return the minimum cost of connecting all the given sticks
into one stick
in this way.
Example 1:
Input: sticks = [2,4,3] Output: 14
Example 2:
Input: sticks = [1,8,3,5] Output: 30
Constraints:
1 <= sticks.length <= 10^4
1 <= sticks[i] <= 10^4