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Rainwater Collection

Given an array of integers representing the heights of bars in a histogram, calculate how much water can be trapped after raining. The water trapped at each bar is determined by the height of the tallest bars to its left and right. You need to output a single integer representing the total units of water trapped. Example: Input: 5 0 1 0 2 1 Output: 1

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