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Koko Eating Bananas

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Koko has piles of bananas and h hours. Each hour she eats up to k bananas from one pile. Return the minimum integer k so she can eat all the bananas within h hours.

(piles=[3,6,7,11], h=8) → 4

(piles=[30,11,23,4,20], h=5) → 30

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