Cut Ribbons of Same Length
You are given a list of positive integers ribbons
and an integer k
. Given that you can cut the ribbons as many times as you want, return the largest r
such that you can have k
ribbons of length r
. If there is no solution, return -1
.
Constraints
1 ≤ n ≤ 100,000
wheren
is the length ofribbons
1 ≤ k
https://binarysearch.com/problems/Cut-Ribbons-of-Same-Length
Examples
Example 1
Input
- ribbons =
[8]
- k =
4
Output
- answer =
2
Explanation
We can cut the ribbon into 4
pieces of size 2
.
Example 2
Input
- ribbons =
[1, 2, 3, 4, 9]
- k =
5
Output
- answer =
3
Explanation
We can cut the ribbon of size 9
into 3
pieces of size 3
each. Then cut the ribbon of size 4
into size 1
and 3
. Then we can achieve 5
ribbons of size 3
.
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