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Problem Overview Given an array bloomDay where bloomDay[i] represents the day on which the i-th flower blooms, determine the minimum number of days required to make m bouquets. Each bouquet requires exactly k adjacent flowers that have already bloomed. If it's impossible to create m bouquets (insufficient flowers), return -1. Constraints 1 &lt ...

Binary search extends far beyond locating values in sorted arrays. The core requirement for applying this technique is identifying a monotonic relationship between an independent variable and a computed result. When a problem can be modeled as finding an input x such that a monotonic function f(x) equals a specific target, binary search becomes ...