Distorted Palindrome

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A palindrome is a string of letters that is equal to itself when reversed. Given an input string, not necessarily a palindrome, compute the number of times you need to swap to transform the string into a palindrome. By swap we mean reversing the order of two adjacent symbols. For example, the string "mamad" may be transformed into the palindrome "madam" with 3 swaps: swap "ad" to get "mamda" swa

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