Add MinimumWaitingTime algorithm (#5794)

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Hardik Pawar
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package com.thealgorithms.greedyalgorithms;
import java.util.Arrays;
/**
* The MinimumWaitingTime class provides a method to calculate the minimum
* waiting time for a list of queries using a greedy algorithm.
*
* @author Hardvan
*/
public final class MinimumWaitingTime {
private MinimumWaitingTime() {
}
/**
* Calculates the minimum waiting time for a list of queries.
* The function sorts the queries in non-decreasing order and then calculates
* the waiting time for each query based on its position in the sorted list.
*
* @param queries an array of integers representing the query times in picoseconds
* @return the minimum waiting time in picoseconds
*/
public static int minimumWaitingTime(int[] queries) {
int n = queries.length;
if (n <= 1) {
return 0;
}
Arrays.sort(queries);
int totalWaitingTime = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
totalWaitingTime += queries[i] * (n - i - 1);
}
return totalWaitingTime;
}
}