Get Minimum Cost

Get Minimum Cost is a Deshaw interviews coding interview problem. Given arrays time and cost for tasks, you have a paid server and a free server. The free server can run a task in 1 unit at zero cost only when the paid server is busy. Determine the minimum total cost to finish all tasks. A concise interview question on scheduling and costs.

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