#2910

Minimum Number of Groups to Create a Valid Assignment

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Description

A collection of numbered balls must be distributed into boxes with these rules:

- All balls sharing a box must have the same numeric value; balls with the same number may go into different boxes.

- The largest box may contain at most one more ball than the smallest box.

Return the minimum number of boxes required.

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