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3389. Minimum Operations to Make Character Frequencies Equal

Description

You are given a string s.

A string t is called good if all characters of t occur the same number of times.

You can perform the following operations any number of times:

  • Delete a character from s.
  • Insert a character in s.
  • Change a character in s to its next letter in the alphabet.

Note that you cannot change 'z' to 'a' using the third operation.

Return the minimum number of operations required to make s good.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "acab"

Output: 1

Explanation:

We can make s good by deleting one occurrence of character 'a'.

Example 2:

Input: s = "wddw"

Output: 0

Explanation:

We do not need to perform any operations since s is initially good.

Example 3:

Input: s = "aaabc"

Output: 2

Explanation:

We can make s good by applying these operations:

  • Change one occurrence of 'a' to 'b'
  • Insert one occurrence of 'c' into s

 

Constraints:

  • 3 <= s.length <= 2 * 104
  • s contains only lowercase English letters.

Solutions

Solution 1

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