Score : 300 points
We have a string X, which has an even number of characters. Half the characters are S, and the other half are T.
Takahashi, who hates the string ST, will perform the following operation 10^{10000} times:
ST in X as (contiguous) substrings, remove the leftmost one. If there is no occurrence, do nothing.Find the eventual length of X.
S, and the other half are T.The input is given from Standard Input in the following format:
X
Print the eventual length of X.
TSTTSS
4
In the 1-st operation, the 2-nd and 3-rd characters of TSTTSS are removed.
X becomes TTSS, and since it does not contain ST anymore, nothing is done in the remaining 10^{10000}-1 operations.
Thus, the answer is 4.
SSTTST
0
X will eventually become an empty string: SSTTST ⇒ STST ⇒ ST ⇒ ``.
TSSTTTSS
4
X will become: TSSTTTSS ⇒ TSTTSS ⇒ TTSS.