Darbar 285 — Shortest Subarray With Sum At Least K

Hard

Darbar · Heap

Catalog slot 285 of 548 (source id 830). Topic heap / queue based.

Solve on LeetCode: Shortest Subarray With Sum At Least K. Do not treat this page as a statement dump.

Aligned T2T band: weeks 31–45. Start at Week 31. Full map: Darbar hub.

Pattern block: Data-structure mastery (weeks 46-60, slots 281-360). Warmup: Standard-library structure drills. Exam: Structure-selection exam with 2-3 advanced problems.

Also filed under: heap / prefix sum, queue / sliding window.

Triangulation — Heap: Darbar speed is Top-K and scheduler problems; Forge depth is Heap invariants and adversarial streams; production artifact is Streaming Top-K / inference batching.

Evidence (cookiecutter problem_285.md)

1. Attempt log (approaches that failed)
2. Final complexity (time and space)
3. One mistake corrected
4. Production concept this slot reinforces

Personal dates and the CSV tracker stay in the learner journal.

Same subtopic

• Max Value Of Equation · hard
• Constrained Subsequence Sum · hard
• Sliding Window Maximum · hard
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