Unique String Frequencies
Given a lowercase alphabet string s
, return the minimum number of characters that we need to delete such that the frequency of each character occurs a unique number of times.
Constraints
n ≤ 100,000
wheren
is the length ofs
https://binarysearch.com/problems/Unique-String-Frequencies
Examples
Example 1
Input
- s =
aabb
Output
- answer =
1
Explanation
Both "a"
and "b"
occur twice, so we can remove say "a"
once to make the frequencies unique.
Example 2
Input
- s =
abbccc
Output
- answer =
0
Explanation
The string already has unique frequencies for "a"
, "b"
and "c"
: [1, 2, 3]
.
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