Given a list of integers, return the sum of the elements that appear exactly once in the list. Return 0 for null or empty input.

Examples:

Input: nums = [1, 2, 3, 2] Output: 4 Explanation: 1 and 3 each appear once (1 + 3 = 4), 2 appears twice and is excluded Input: nums = [1, 1, 1, 1] Output: 0 Explanation: The only distinct value appears four times, so no unique elements exist Input: nums = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Output: 15 Explanation: Every element appears exactly once, so the sum is 1+2+3+4+5 Input: nums = [] Output: 0 Explanation: Empty list returns 0 Input: nums = null Output: 0 Explanation: Null input returns 0
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