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Intuition behind "CSES — Network Renovation"
By asdasdqwer, history, 10 months ago, In English

Hello,

could anyone please explain me the intuition behind the solution of CSES-Network Renovation?

The solution to the task

Why does this greedy strategy suffice for connecting the entire tree?

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You can understand the intuition of the solution in intuition.

The gist of it is by adding k/2 we are guaranteed to have the nodes belong to different subtrees.

Hope this helps.

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