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Minimum eating rate to finish in time

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AppleCodingLast asked May 2026

You have piles of work (in the classic version, piles of bananas) and h hours. Each hour you process up to k units from a single pile. Find the smallest whole-number rate k that finishes every pile within h hours. The hours needed only go down as k goes up, so binary search on k.

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