Given an integer array nums and an integer k, you may repeatedly choose two distinct elements from nums whose sum equals k and remove both elements from the array. Each such removal counts as one operation.

Return the maximum number of operations you can perform.

Constraints:

• $1 \leq$ nums.length $\leq 10^5$

• $1 \leq$ nums[i] $\leq 10^9$

• $1 \leq$ k $\leq 10^9$

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