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Problem 3: Maximum Number of Balloons (easy)
Problem Statement
Given a string, determine the maximum number of times the word "balloon" can be formed using the characters from the string. Each character in the string can be used only once.
Examples:
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Example 1:
- Input: "balloonballoon"
- Expected Output: 2
- Justification: The word "balloon" can be formed twice from the given string.
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Example 2:
- Input: "bbaall"
- Expected Output: 0
- Justification: The word "balloon" cannot be formed from the given string as we are missing the character 'o' twice.
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Example 3:
- Input: "balloonballoooon"
- Expected Output: 2
- Justification: The word "balloon" can be formed twice, even though there are extra 'o' characters.
Constraints:
- 1 <= text.length <= 10<sup>4</sup>
text
consists of lower case English letters only.
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