Problem Description

At the time of the vernal equinox, everything grows, but Logger Vick is still cutting down trees. He wants to delete some edges from a tree to turn it into several chains (i.e., there are no nodes with degree $>2$), which makes it easier to transport the wood. However, Logger Vick is lazy, so he wants to delete as few edges as possible. Please help him compute the minimum number of edges to delete.

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Input Format

The first line contains a positive integer $n$, which is the number of nodes in the tree.

The next $n - 1$ lines each contain two positive integers $u_i, v_i$, indicating that there is an edge between nodes $u_i$ and $v_i$.

Output Format

Output one positive integer in one line, representing the minimum number of edges that need to be deleted to turn the original tree into several chains.

8
1 2
1 4
1 7
2 3
4 5
4 6
7 8

1

Hint

[Sample Explanation #1]

Delete the edge $(1,4)$, and you get the chains $(5, 4, 6)$ and $(3, 2, 1, 7, 8)$.

[Constraints]

For $20\%$ of the testdata, $n \le 20$.

For another $10\%$ of the testdata, there exists a node whose degree is $n - 1$.

For $100\%$ of the testdata, $1 \le n \le 10^6$, $1 \le u_i, v_i \le n$.

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