Maximum Score From Removing Stones
You are playing a solitaire game with three piles of stones of sizes a, b, and c respectively.
You are playing a solitaire game with three piles of stones of sizes a, b, and c respectively. Each turn you choose two different non-empty piles, take one stone from each, and add 1 point to your score. The game stops when there are fewer than two non-empty piles (meaning there are no more available moves).
Given three integers a, b, and c, return the maximum score you can get.
Example 1
Input: a = 2, b = 4, c = 6
Output: 6
Explanation: The starting state is (2, 4, 6). One optimal set of moves is: - Take from 1st and 3rd piles, state is now (1, 4, 5) - Take from 1st and 3rd piles, state is now (0, 4, 4) - Take from 2nd and 3rd piles, state is now (0, 3, 3) - Take from 2nd and 3rd piles, state is now (0, 2, 2) - Take from 2nd and 3rd piles, state is now (0, 1, 1) - Take from 2nd and 3rd piles, state is now (0, 0, 0) There are fewer than two non-empty piles, so the game ends. Total: 6 points.
Example 2
Input: a = 4, b = 4, c = 6
Output: 7
Explanation: The starting state is (4, 4, 6). One optimal set of moves is: - Take from 1st and 2nd piles, state is now (3, 3, 6) - Take from 1st and 3rd piles, state is now (2, 3, 5) - Take from 1st and 3rd piles, state is now (1, 3, 4) - Take from 1st and 3rd piles, state is now (0, 3, 3) - Take from 2nd and 3rd piles, state is now (0, 2, 2) - Take from 2nd and 3rd piles, state is now (0, 1, 1) - Take from 2nd and 3rd piles, state is now (0, 0, 0) There are fewer than two non-empty piles, so the game ends. Total: 7 points.
Example 3
Input: a = 1, b = 8, c = 8
Output: 8
Explanation: One optimal set of moves is to take from the 2nd and 3rd piles for 8 turns until they are empty. After that, there are fewer than two non-empty piles, so the game ends.
Constraints
- 1 <= a, b, c <= 10^5
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