Solution: Most Stones Removed with Same Row or Column
Explore how to apply the Union Find data structure to solve the maximum stones removal problem. Understand grouping stones by shared rows or columns and calculate how many can be safely removed, optimizing with union by rank and path compression methods.
Statement
Given an array of stones in a two-dimensional plane, where each stone is represented by a pair of x and y coordinates, find the maximum number of stones we can remove with the following condition:
A stone can be removed if it shares either the same row or the same column with another stone that has not been removed so far.
Stones are provided as an array, stones, of length , where ...