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Given operations that delete the nearest equal character to the left or right of a chosen index, determine the smallest possible final length of the string; the key observation is that you can always remove duplicates of a character until only one remains, so the answer reduces to counting distinct characters in s.
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Leetcode 2716. Minimize String Length
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