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Pastry flavors

A Pastry chef made N pieces of pastries, numbered them 1 through N and arranged them in this order in a row. There are K possible types of flavours (numbered 1 through K); for each valid i, the i-th piece of pastry has a flavour Ai. The Chef wants to select a contiguous subsegment of the pieces of pastry such that there is at least one flavour which does not occur in that subsegment. Find the max

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