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Subject PalindromesLevel Senior–Staff~34 minCommon in Distributed systems · Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Given a string s, partition it into contiguous substrings such that every part is a palindrome, and return the MINIMUM number of cuts needed. A single character is a palindrome; a string already palindromic needs 0 cuts. 1 <= len(s) <= 2000, lowercase letters. Example: 'aab' -> 1 (cut into 'aa' | 'b').

Implement

min_palindrome_cuts(s: str) → int

Examples

in["aab"]out1

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