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Difficult Amazon OA problem
By bokuto_alright, history, 23 months ago, In English

Saw this on LC discussion and have no idea how to approach. https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/5365200/Amazon-OA

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Same problem as this? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78108438/number-of-unique-strings-that-can-be-formed-by-reversing-one-substring-of-a-stri

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    It is. Thank you

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      It seems logically incorrect to me.

      For example, the answer for "abca" would be 6 {abca, baca, acba, abac, cbaa, aacb}, but the answer from the mentioned solution would be 5, which is incorrect.

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        No, it is correct actually. I coded up the solution and the answer for abca is 6 only Code for reference ->

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