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'''
1046.


We have a collection of stones, each stone has a positive integer weight.

Each turn, we choose the two heaviest stones and smash them together.  Suppose the stones have weights x and y with x <= y.  The result of this smash is:

If x == y, both stones are totally destroyed;
If x != y, the stone of weight x is totally destroyed, and the stone of weight y has new weight y-x.
At the end, there is at most 1 stone left.  Return the weight of this stone (or 0 if there are no stones left.)


Example 1:

Input: [2,7,4,1,8,1]
Output: 1
Explanation:
We combine 7 and 8 to get 1 so the array converts to [2,4,1,1,1] then,
we combine 2 and 4 to get 2 so the array converts to [2,1,1,1] then,
we combine 2 and 1 to get 1 so the array converts to [1,1,1] then,
we combine 1 and 1 to get 0 so the array converts to [1] then that's the value of last stone.


Note:

1 <= stones.length <= 30
1 <= stones[i] <= 1000

'''

class Solution(object):
    def lastStoneWeight(self, stones):
        """
        :type stones: List[int]
        :rtype: int
        """
        while len(stones) > 1:
            stones.sort(reverse=True)
            if stones[0] != stones[1]:
                j = stones[0]- stones[1]
                stones.append(j)
            stones.remove(stones[0])
            stones.remove(stones[0])

        if len(stones) > 0: return stones[0]
        return 0