#2171
Removing Minimum Number of Magic Beans
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Description
You are given an array of positive integers beans, where each integer represents the number of magic beans in a bag.
Remove any number of beans from each bag so that every non-empty bag has the same count. You may remove beans from a bag entirely (making it empty), but beans may not be moved between bags.
Return the minimum number of beans that must be removed.
Example 1:
Input: beans = [4,1,6,5]
Output: 4
Explanation:
- We remove 1 bean from the bag with only 1 bean.
This results in the remaining bags: [4,0,6,5]
- Then we remove 2 beans from the bag with 6 beans.
This results in the remaining bags: [4,0,4,5]
- Then we remove 1 bean from the bag with 5 beans.
This results in the remaining bags: [4,0,4,4]
We removed a total of 1 + 2 + 1 = 4 beans to make the remaining non-empty bags have an equal number of beans.
There are no other solutions that remove 4 beans or fewer.
Example 2:
Input: beans = [2,10,3,2]
Output: 7
Explanation:
- We remove 2 beans from one of the bags with 2 beans.
This results in the remaining bags: [0,10,3,2]
- Then we remove 2 beans from the other bag with 2 beans.
This results in the remaining bags: [0,10,3,0]
- Then we remove 3 beans from the bag with 3 beans.
This results in the remaining bags: [0,10,0,0]
We removed a total of 2 + 2 + 3 = 7 beans to make the remaining non-empty bags have an equal number of beans.
There are no other solutions that removes 7 beans or fewer.
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