Matchsticks to Square
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Geometric Constraint
To form a square, we must partition the matchsticks into 4 groups of equal length. This length must be TotalLength / 4.
Relation to K-Partition
This is a special case of Partition to K Equal Sum Subsets where . The same pruning strategies (descending sort, skip empty buckets) apply here for efficiency.
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