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Flip Prefix

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You are given a **binary** string $S$ of length $N$, i.e. $S_i = 0$ or $1$. You can do the following operation as many times as you want (possibly zero): - Choose a prefix $S[1, X]$ ($1 \le X \le N$) such that there are equal number of $0$s and $1$s in this prefix, and then flip$^{\dagger}$ that prefix. For example, in the string $001101$, we can choose the prefix of length $4$ which has $2$ $

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