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Binary Matrix

Chef gives you a matrix $A$ of size $N \cdot M$ containing only zeros and ones. In one operation, you can swap any $2$ columns. You can apply this operation any number of times. What is the area (total number of cells) of the largest [submatrix](https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Submatrix.html) of the given matrix **containing all ones** you can achieve if you apply the operations optimally? ### Inp

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