#3191
Minimum Operations to Make Binary Array Elements Equal to One I
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array · bit manipulation · queue · sliding window · prefix sum
Description
You are given a binary array nums.
You can do the following operation on the array any number of times (possibly zero):
- Choose any 3 consecutive elements from the array and flip all of them.
Flipping an element means changing its value from 0 to 1, and from 1 to 0.
Return the minimum number of operations required to make all elements in nums equal to 1. If it is impossible, return -1.
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