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Disjoint Course Registration

In a college, there are multiple courses and students can enroll in those courses. However, some courses are incompatible (i.e., if a student is enrolled in one, they cannot enroll in another). Given a list of incompatible course pairs, your task is to find the maximum number of compatible courses that can be taken by a single student. Input format: - The first line contains an integer n (1 ≤ n ≤ 1000), the number of courses. - The second line contains an integer m (0 ≤ m ≤ 10000), the number of incompatible pairs. - The following m lines each contain two integers a and b (1 ≤ a, b ≤ n) indicating that course a and course b are incompatible. Output format: - Print a single integer that represents the maximum number of compatible courses. Example: Input: 5 4 1 2 2 3 1 3 4 5 Output: 2

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