#C6169. Taco: Shortest Palindrome Extension
Taco: Shortest Palindrome Extension
Taco: Shortest Palindrome Extension
Given a string s
consisting of lowercase letters, your task is to determine the length of the shortest palindrome that can be obtained by appending characters to the end of s
. In other words, you need to find the minimum length such that by concatenating an appropriate suffix to s
, the resulting string becomes a palindrome.
For example:
- For
s = "abac"
, the shortest palindrome has length 5. - For
s = "abcd"
, the answer is 7. - For
s = "race"
, the answer is 7. - For
s = "level"
, it is already a palindrome, so the answer is 5. - For
s = "aa"
, the answer is 2. - For
s = "a"
, the answer is 1.
Note: The solution should use the approach of checking the longest palindromic prefix of s
and then calculating the additional characters needed. The palindrome condition should be based on the standard definition where a string reads the same forward and backward. All formulas or mathematical expressions must be provided in LaTeX format when necessary.
For instance, if you let \(n\) denote the length of s
and \(k\) be the largest index such that the prefix \(s[0\ldots k]\) is a palindrome, then the answer is computed as:
[ \text{answer} = n + (n - (k+1)) ]
inputFormat
The input consists of a single line containing a non-empty string s
composed of lowercase English letters.
outputFormat
Output a single integer representing the length of the shortest palindrome that can be formed by appending characters to the end of s
.
abac
5