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Find the minimized sum of non-deleted elements of the array after the end of the game

Polycarp has an array consisting of n integers.

He wants to play a game with this array. The game consists of several moves. On the first move, he chooses any element and deletes it (after the first move the array contains n−1 elements).

For each of the next moves he chooses any element with the only restriction: its parity should differ from the parity of the element deleted on the previous move. In other words, he alternates parities (even-odd-even-odd-… or odd-even-odd-even-…) of the removed elements. Polycarp stops if he can’t make a move.

Formally:

1. If it is the first move, he chooses any element and deletes it;
2. If it is the second or any next move:
       – if the last deleted element was odd, Polycarp chooses any even element and deletes it;
       – if the last deleted element was even, Polycarp chooses an odd element and deletes it.
3. If after some move Polycarp cannot make a move, the game ends.

Polycarp’s goal is to minimize the sum of non-deleted elements of the array after the end of the game. If Polycarp can delete the whole array, then the sum of non-deleted elements is zero.
Help Polycarp find this value.

Input:
The first line of the input contains one integer n — the number of elements of a.
The second line of the input contains n integers a1,a2,…,an, where ai is the i-th element of a.

Output:
Print one integer — the minimum possible sum of non-deleted elements of the array after the end of the game.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int cmp(const void *a, const void *b){
return *(int*)a - *(int*)b;
}
  int main(){
  int o[2000], ol = 0, e[2000], el = 0, n, t;
  scanf("%d", &n);
  while(n--) {
  scanf("%d", &t);
  if(t % 2)
  o[ol++] = t;
  else
  e[el++] = t;
  }
  qsort(o, ol, sizeof(int), cmp);
  qsort(e, el, sizeof(int), cmp);
  while(ol && el) {
  ol--;
  el--;
  }
  t = 0;
  if(ol) {
  ol--;
  while(ol)
  t += o[--ol];
  } else if(el) {
  el--;
  while(el)
  t += e[--el];}
  printf("%d", t);
return 0;
}


INPUT_1:
5
2  1  1  1  1

OUTPUT:
2


INPUT_2:
5
1  1  1  1  1

OUTPUT:
4


ILLUSTRATION

Executed using gcc

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