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