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 Goal

You have a number N of magic stones each of which has a level with a positive integer value.

The stones are very heavy and cumbersome to carry around.

Luckily you can use your magic powers to combine two stones of level i to form a single stone of level i+1.

Use your power to minimise the number of stones that you have.
Input
Line 1: An integer N for the number of magic stones you have.
Line 2: N space separated integer values
Output
Line 1: The minimum number of stones you can have.
Constraints
0 < N < 1000
Example
Input
2
1 1
Output
1
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