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N-Queens II

The N-Queens puzzle is the challenge of placing N chess queens on an N×N chessboard such that no two queens threaten each other. Given an integer n, return the number of distinct solutions to the N-Queens puzzle. Input Format: A single integer n, the size of the chessboard. Example Input: 4 Output Format: An integer representing the number of distinct solutions. Example Output: 2

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