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Sherlocked String

Mycroft has been taken hostage by Moriarty . To rescue Mycroft, Sherlock needs to solve Moriarty's final puzzle. Sherlock is having trouble solving the problem and asks you to help him. Now to solve the puzzle, he needs to extract a magic number out of a given string. The string contains lower case latin characters. The magic number can be calculated as the maximum distance between two opposite ch

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