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    You are writing simple budgeting softare. A Budget consists of a total limit, represented as a positive integer, and a dictionary of category limits, represented as a map from strings to integers. For example:
{
  "total_limit": 50,
  "category_limits": {
    "food": 10,
    "rent": 11,
    "candles": 49
  }
}

(You can assume that no category will have a higher limit than the total, but you don't have to enforce this.)
A Bill is an array of Items. Each Item has a cost (positive integer), an optional count (positive integer), and optional categories (array of strings). For example:
[
  {"cost": 5},
  {"cost": 1, "count": 3},
  {"cost": 2, "categories": ["food", "gym"]},
  {"cost": 1, "count": 2, "categories": ["transit"]}
]

The goal is to write can_afford(budget, bill). Affordability is calculated under the following rules:

The cost of every item is subtracted from total_limit.
If an item shares a category with the budget's category_limits, then price of that item is also subtracted from said category in addition to the total_limit.
The item might not share a category with the budget, or it might not have a category field at all. In both cases, no special rules apply.
If an item shares multiple categories with the budget, the cost is applied to only one category limit of your choice.
If an item has a count, the cost of the item is included count times. This applies to both total_limit and the category limits. If the count field is missing, you can assume a count of 1.
can_afford is true if, after all items are accounted for, total_limit and all category limits are non-negative. If the total_limit or any category limits are below 0, then can_afford is false.

can_afford should be as permissive as possible. The following is considered affordable:
can_afford(
  {"total": 5, "category_limits": {"a": 1, "b": 3}},
  [{"cost": 2, "categories": ["a", "b"]}]
)

While the sole item in the bill is greater than category_limits[a], it is less than category_limits[b], so the bill is affordable.
You do not need to use the same names for anything, or the same data layout, as long as the requirements are satisfied.

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