Particle accelerator

#include <bits/stdc++.h>

using namespace std;

const long long INF = 9223372036854775807;

int main()
{
    int n;
    cin >> n;
    vector<int> weights(n);
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        cin >> weights[i];
    }

    // idea: dp[l][r] is min energy for combining all particles from l to r
    vector<vector<long long>> dp(n);
    vector<long long> weight_sums(n + 1);

    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        dp[i] = vector<long long>(n, INF);
        dp[i][i] = 0;
        weight_sums[i + 1] = weight_sums[i] + weights[i];
    }

    for (int length = 1; length <= n; length++)
    {
        for (int row = 0; row <= n - length; row++)
        {
            int col = row + length - 1;
            for (int k = row; k < col; k++)
            {
                long long mass_1 = weight_sums[k + 1] - weight_sums[row];
                long long mass_2 = weight_sums[col + 1] - weight_sums[k + 1];
                long long merge_cost = mass_1 * mass_2 - pow(min(mass_1, mass_2), 2);
                long long total_cost = dp[row][k] + dp[k + 1][col] + merge_cost;
                dp[row][col] = min(dp[row][col], total_cost);
            }
        }
    }

    cout << dp[0][n - 1] << endl;
}

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