Practice Broken Calculator
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Problem Statement
The calculator initially displays startValue. Each operation either doubles the displayed integer or subtracts 1. Return the minimum operations required to display target.
Source: Broken Calculator on LeetCode. Use the original task for its coding environment and submissions.
Examples
# Example 1
Input
startValue = 2, target = 3
Output
2
# Example 2
Input
startValue = 5, target = 8
Output
2
# Example 3
Input
startValue = 3, target = 10
Output
3
Constraints
1 <= startValue, target <= 10^9
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