A banana plantation is located next to a desert. The plantation owner has 3,000 bananas that he wants to transport to the market by camel across a 1,000-kilometer stretch of desert. The owner has only one camel, which can carry a maximum of 1,000 bananas at any given time and eats one banana for every kilometer it travels.

The question: What is the largest number of bananas that can be delivered to the market?

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