Section 1Understand Problem
Section 01
Understand the problem
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Problem statement
You are given a string `s`. We want to partition the string into as many parts as possible so that each letter appears in at most one part. Return a list of integers representing the size of these parts.
Example
s = "ababcbacadefegdehijhklij" → [9, 7, 8]
Constraints
1 ≤ s.length ≤ 500 · s consists of lowercase English letters
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