9343: CCC '20 S4 - Swapping Seats
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Description
There are $N$ people sitting at a circular table for a long session of negotiations. Each person belongs to one of the three groups: A, B, or C. A group is happy if all of its members are sitting contiguously in a block of consecutive seats. You would like to make all groups happy by some sequence of swap operations. In each swap operation, two people exchange seats with each other. What is the minimum number of swaps required to make all groups happy?
Input
The input consists of a single line containing $N\ (1≤N≤1,000,000)$ characters, where each character is A, B, or C. The $i$-th character denotes the group of the person initially sitting at the $i$-th seat at the table, where seats are numbered in clockwise order.
Output
Output a single integer, the minimum possible number of swaps.
Sample 1 Input
BABCBCACCA
Sample 1 Output
2
In one possible sequence, the first swap results in the seating layout AABCBCBCCA. After the second swap, the layout is AABBBCCCCA.