AtCoder Grand Contest 054
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Problem Statement
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Given is a string $S$ of length $N$ consisting of lowercase English letters.
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You can do the following operation on $S$ any number of times.
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- Choose its (non-empty) contiguous substring such that the first character and the last character are different, and delete this substring.
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Determine whether it is possible to make $S$ empty. If it is possible, find the minimum number of operations needed to do so.
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Constraints
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$2 \leq N \leq 10^5$$S$is a string of length$N$consisting of lowercase English letters.
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Input
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Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:
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N
S
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Output
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If it is possible to make $S$ empty, print the minimum number of operations needed to do so. Otherwise, print $-1$.
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样例
Input #1
4
abba
Output #1
2
We should do as follows: `abba` → (delete `ab`) → `ba` → (delete `ba`) → an empty string.
Input #2
3
aba
Output #2
-1
题目信息
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