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By wronganswer.5, history, 15 months ago, In English

You are given a string s. You are allowed to do following operation any number of times: choose two characters in s say c1 and c2, replace all the occurences of c1 with c2 and all the occurences of c2 with c1. You want to make it lexographically smallest.

eg: s="bbcacad" ans: "aabbccd"

step1: choose a and b, we get -> aacbcbd step2: choose b and, we get -> aabcbcd

eg2: s="bdea" ans: "abde"

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