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Banking System Operations

Implement createAccount / deposit / transfer plus getTopSpenders(n) (top n by cumulative outgoing transfers, ties broken lexicographically by accountId). Stretch goal: schedulePayment with a delay and cancelPayment by id. Scheduled payments execute by due time, not creation order, so a plain FIFO queue is the wrong structure.

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