Minimum Number of Increments on Subarrays to Form a Target Array
Hard
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class Solution {
public int minNumberOperations(int[] target) {
int count = 0; // Tracks total number of operations required
int prev = 0; // Stores the previous element value for comparison
// Iterate through each number in the target array
for (int num : target) {
// If current number is greater than the previous one,
// we need (num - prev) additional operations to reach this height
if (num > prev) {
count += num - prev;
}
prev = num;
}
return count;
}
}