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Most Stones Removed with Same Row or Column (medium)
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You have a 2D grid where you place n stones at specific integer coordinates, and each coordinate can have at most 1 stone.

A stone can be removed if it shares either the same row or the same column as another stone that has not been removed.

Given an array stones of length n, where stones[i] = [x<sub>i</sub>, yi<sub>i</sub>] is the location of the i<sup>th</sup> stone, return the maximum number of stones that can be removed.

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Example 1:

  • Input: stones = [[1, 1], [2, 2], [3, 1], [3, 2], [4, 4]]
  • Expected Output: 3
  • Justification: You can remove stones from [1, 1], [3, 1], and [3, 2] positions.

Example 2:

  • Input: stones = [[0, 0], [0, 1], [1, 0], [1, 1], [2, 2]]
  • Expected Output: 3
  • Justification: You can remove stones from [0, 0], [0, 1], and [1, 0] positions.

Example 3:

  • Input: stones = [[0, 1], [3, 4], [4, 3], [4, 4], [5, 5]]
  • Expected Output: 2
  • Justification: You can remove stones from [4, 4], and [3, 4] positions.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= stones.length <= 1000
  • 0 <= x<sub>i</sub>, y<sub>i</sub> <= 10<sup>4</sup>
  • No two stones are at the same coordinate point.

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