USACO 2021 January Contest, Gold
Problem 1. Uddered but not Herd
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To pass the time, Bessie's cousin Mildred has been humming the cowphabet over and over again, and Farmer Nhoj is curious how many times she's hummed it.
Given a lowercase string of letters that Farmer Nhoj has heard Mildred say, compute the minimum number of times Mildred must have hummed the entire cowphabet in order for Farmer Nhoj to have heard the given string. Farmer Nhoj isn't always paying attention to what Mildred hums, and so he might have missed some of the letters that Mildred has hummed. The string you are told consists of just the letters that he remembers hearing.
Note: the time limit per test case on this problem is twice the default.
INPUT FORMAT (input arrives from the terminal / stdin):
The only line of input contains the string of lowercase letters that Farmer Nhoj heard Mildred say. This string has length at least $1$ and at most $10^5$.OUTPUT FORMAT (print output to the terminal / stdout):
Print the minimum number of times Mildred must have hummed the entire cowphabet.SAMPLE INPUT:
mildredree
SAMPLE OUTPUT:
3
Mildred must have hummed the cowphabet at least three times. It is possible for Mildred to have only hummed the cowphabet three times if the cowphabet starts with "mildre" and Farmer Nhoj heard the letters in uppercase as denoted below.
MILDREabcfghjknopqstuvwxyz milDREabcfghjknopqstuvwxyz mildrEabcfghjknopqstuvwxyz
SCORING:
- In test cases 1-5, Farmer Nhoj only heard letters that appear in Mildred's or Bessie's names.
- In test cases 6-16, Farmer Nhoj never heard any of the letters that appear in Mildred's name.
Problem credits: Nick Wu and Brian Dean