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Md Ariful Haque @mah-shamim

House Robber IV: Min Capability

Binary Search used to find min capability of robber stealing from at least k non-consecutive houses with max value not exceeding the current guess.

2560. House Robber IV
Difficulty: Medium
Topics: Array, Binary Search
There are several consecutive houses along a street, each of which has some money inside. There is also a robber, who wants to steal money from the homes, but he refuses to steal from adjacent homes.
The capability of the robber is the maximum amount of money he steals from one house of all the houses he robbed.
You are given an integer array nums representing how much money is stashed in each house. More formally, the ith house from the left has nums[i] dollars.
You are also given an integer k, representing the minimum numb...