Greedy Transformations on Array | Dataford Interview Questions

Given an array of integers, perform a series of transformations and return the optimized result using a greedy approach.

For this task, one transformation increments a single element by 1. Return the strictly increasing array requiring the fewest total increments, preserving the original order.

Implement def optimize_array(nums):, where nums is a list of integers and the result is a new list of integers.

Constraints

1 <= nums.length <= 500
-10^9 <= nums[i] <= 10^9
Return a new list and do not modify nums
The output must be strictly increasing

Function Signature

def optimize_array(nums):

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