Shopping and Billing
Problem Overview
- Given N counters and M arrivals at time[i], each person picks the counter with the shortest queue; report the time each person finishes billing.
- Input: N, M, time array. Output: finish time per person in arrival order. Each bill takes 1 time unit; counters work continuously.
- Context: Retail checkout queue management with real-time arrivals.
- Constraints unspecified (TO-DO) in the statement.
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