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Last Stone Weight

Simulate stone smashing game Return weight of last remaining stone (or 0 if none) Example: [2,7,4,1,8,1] => 1

Last Stone Weight tests whether you can keep a best-so-far structure honest as you go. It's a great warm-up that builds priority-based reasoning without a ton of moving parts. If your heap represents best candidates right now, the rest falls into place.

Arrays & HashingHeap / Priority Queue

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