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Kotlin
I'm late to the party but I hope some of you will still be inspired by my submisison. This is an iterative solution. I began with a recursive solution that worked but I noticed that it should really be rewritten in an iterative way. The solution is also pointlessly optimized, to some degree, but that's just what I like to do. ๐
The logic follows a simple pattern of knowing which window of the battery bank to search in. Given the amount of batteries that remain to be turned on, if you were to turn on the last battery in the window, you'd need to turn on all the remaining batteries. So the window begins at one position past the prior battery and ends at the last battery you actually can choose to turn on. Once that has been turned on, all remaining ones need to be turned on. The window can only actually shrink to at least one position.
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Its not a race, its a journey! Keep it up!