Solution: Minimum One Bit Operations to Make Integers Zero

Let’s solve the Minimum One Bit Operations to Make Integers Zero problem using the Bitwise Manipulation pattern.

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Statement

You are given an integer n. Your goal is to reduce it to $0$ by repeatedly performing either of the following bit operations:

Flip the rightmost bit (bit at position $0$ ) of n.
Flip the bit at position $i$ (for $i > 0$ ) only if the bit at position $i - 1$ is $1$ and all bits from position $i - 2$ down to $0$ are set to $0$ .

Determine and return the minimum number of these operations required to reduce n to $0$ .

Constraints:

First, we need to analyze how binary numbers can be manipulated using the two allowed operations:

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