Cut The Sticks

You are given sticks, where the length of each stick is a positive integer. A cut operation is performed on the sticks such that all of them are reduced by the length of the smallest stick. Suppose we have six sticks of the following lengths: 5 4 4 2 2 8 Then, in one cut operation we make a cut of length 2 from each of the six sticks. For the next cut operation four sticks are left (of non-zero