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You are given an integer n indicating there are n specialty retail stores. There are m product types of varying amounts, which are given as a 0-indexed integer array quantities, where quantities[i] represents the number of products of the ith product type.
You need to distribute all products to the retail stores following these rules:
0). Let x represent the maximum number of products given to any store. You want x to be as small as possible, i.e., you want to minimize the maximum number of products that are given to any store.Return the minimum possible x.
Example 1:
Input: n = 6, quantities = [11,6] Output: 3 Explanation: One optimal way is: - The 11 products of type 0 are distributed to the first four stores in these amounts: 2, 3, 3, 3 - The 6 products of type 1 are distributed to the other two stores in these amounts: 3, 3 The maximum number of products given to any store is max(2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3) = 3.
Example 2:
Input: n = 7, quantities = [15,10,10] Output: 5 Explanation: One optimal way is: - The 15 products of type 0 are distributed to the first three stores in these amounts: 5, 5, 5 - The 10 products of type 1 are distributed to the next two stores in these amounts: 5, 5 - The 10 products of type 2 are distributed to the last two stores in these amounts: 5, 5 The maximum number of products given to any store is max(5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5) = 5.
Example 3:
Input: n = 1, quantities = [100000] Output: 100000 Explanation: The only optimal way is: - The 100000 products of type 0 are distributed to the only store. The maximum number of products given to any store is max(100000) = 100000.
Constraints:
m == quantities.length1 <= m <= n <= 1051 <= quantities[i] <= 105