atcoder#ABC120C. [ABC120C] Unification
[ABC120C] Unification
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Problem Statement
There are cubes stacked vertically on a desk.
You are given a string of length . The color of the -th cube from the bottom is red if the -th character in is 0
, and blue if that character is 1
.
You can perform the following operation any number of times: choose a red cube and a blue cube that are adjacent, and remove them. Here, the cubes that were stacked on the removed cubes will fall down onto the object below them.
At most how many cubes can be removed?
Constraints
- Each character in is
0
or1
.
Input
Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:
Output
Print the maximum number of cubes that can be removed.
0011
4
All four cubes can be removed, by performing the operation as follows:
- Remove the second and third cubes from the bottom. Then, the fourth cube drops onto the first cube.
- Remove the first and second cubes from the bottom.
11011010001011
12
0
0