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.