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SocksLaundry

Meet Anna, she likes to travel with as many clean pair of socks for her trips abroad.

Anna's socks are divided into two drawers: clean and dirty socks. Anna has an unusual washing machine that can only wash a sock at a time and clean at most K socks described by noOfWashes.

Anna wants to pick socks for laundering in such a way that after washing she will have a maximal number of clean, same-coloured pair of socks. It is possible that some socks cannot be paired with any other sock, because Anna may have lost socks over the years.

Anna has exactly N clean and M dirty socks, which are described in the arrays cleanPile and dirtyPile respectively. The colours of the socks are represented as integers with equal numbers representing identical colours.

For example, if Anna's washing machine can clean at most 2 socks.

noOfWashes: number = 2;
cleanPile: number[] = [1, 2, 1, 1];
dirtyPile: number[] = [1, 4, 3, 2, 4];

Then, the maximum number of pairs of socks Anna can take on her trip is 3.

In the same scenario, if Anna's machine isn't working, i.e noOfWashes is 0. The maximum number of socks she can take on her trips is 1.

Also, if Anna's machine can wash as many socks as she wants, the maximum number of pair of socks, for this scenario she can take on her trip is 4.

Note that clean socks do not need to be washed again.

Write a function that given the noOfWashes, cleanPile, and dirtyPile returns the maximum number of pair of socks that Anna can take on the trip with the given conditions.

Assume that

noOfWashes is an integer within the range 0...50 cleanPile and dirtyPile is an integer array within the range 1...50, they cannot be empty, and contain at most 50 elements.

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