Question: In java, and wothout hash map Task Given a string of letters find the minimum number of letters you have to remove from the string,

In java, and wothout hash map

Task

Given a string of letters find the minimum number of letters you have to remove from the string, so that a reordering of the letters will result in a palindrome. A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward. For example these odd length palidroms: madam (aadmm), racecar (aaccerr), xxxzxxx (xxxxxxz); and these even length palidroms: noon (nnoo), abccba (aabbcc).

Hint: You can do arithmetic on characters: 'c'+1 is equal to 100 in Java.

Input

All input is read from the standard input stream. The input consists of any number of strings. The strings will contain a least 1 and at most 1000 characters, and will contain only lowercase letters 'a' through 'z'.

Output

All output is written to the standard output stream. Each line of the output consists a single decimal integer, one for each word in the input.

Sample

Sample input:

abc add 

The corresponding output:

2 0 

In the first case removing "bc" leaves the palindrom "a". And in the second case reordering "add" yields the palindrom "dad".

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