Minimum Operations to Make Binary Array Elements Equal to One I

You are given a binary array nums.

You can do the following operation on the array any number of times (possibly zero):

  • Choose any 3 consecutive elements from the array and flip all of them.

Flipping an element means changing its value from 0 to 1, and from 1 to 0.

Return the minimum number of operations required to make all elements in nums equal to 1. If it is impossible, return -1.

Example 1
Inputnums = [0,1,1,1,0,0]
Output3
By flipping indices 0 to 2, then 1 to 3, then 3 to 5, all elements become 1 in 3 operations.
Example 2
Inputnums = [0,1,1,1]
Output-1
It is impossible to make all elements equal to 1.

Constraints

  • 3 <= nums.length <= 10^5
  • 0 <= nums[i] <= 1

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