Birthday Cake Candles
EasyP3Coding
Each element of candles is the height of a birthday candle. Only the tallest candles can be blown out. Return how many candles share the maximum height. For an empty array return 0.
Example 1
- Input
- candles = [4,4,1,3]
- Output
- 2
- Why
- The tallest height is 4 and two candles have it.
Example 2
- Input
- candles = [3,2,1,3]
- Output
- 2
Example 3
- Input
- candles = []
- Output
- 0
Constraints
- 0 <= candles.length <= 10^5
- 1 <= candles[i] <= 10^7
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