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664. Strange Printer

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There is a strange printer with the following two special properties: - The printer can only print a sequence of the same character each time. - At each turn, the printer can print new characters starting from and ending at any place and will cover the original existing characters. Given a string s, return the minimum number of turns the printer needed to print it. Example 1: Input: s = "aa

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