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1046. Last Stone Weight

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You are given an array of integers stones where stones[i] is the weight of the ith stone. We are playing a game with the stones. On each turn, we choose the heaviest two stones and smash them together. Suppose the heaviest two stones have weights x and y with x <= y. The result of this smash is: - If x == y, both stones are destroyed, and - If x != y, the stone of weight x is destroyed, and the

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