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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 where n is the length of ribbons
  • 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.

Solution

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