Most Stones Removed with Same Row or Column

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On a 2D plane, we place n stones at some integer coordinate points. Each coordinate point may have at most one stone.

A stone can be removed if it shares either the same row or the same column as another stone that is still on the plane.

Given an array stones of length n where stones[i] = [x, y] represents the location of the i-th stone, return the largest possible number of stones that can be removed. On this judge the array is passed as a grid with two columns.

Example 1

Input:  grid = [[0,0],[0,1],[1,0],[1,2],[2,1],[2,2]]
Output: 5
Explanation: All six stones are connected, so all but one can be removed.

Example 2

Input:  grid = [[0,0],[0,2],[1,1],[2,0],[2,2]]
Output: 3

Example 3

Input:  grid = [[0,0]]
Output: 0
Explanation: A lone stone shares no row or column, so it cannot be removed.

Constraints

  • 1 <= stones.length <= 1000
  • 0 <= x, y <= 10^4
  • No two stones are at the same coordinate point
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