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Groups of Special-Equivalent Strings

You are given an array of strings of the same length words.

You are given an array of strings of the same length words.

In one move, you can swap any two even indexed characters or any two odd indexed characters of a string words[i].

Two strings words[i] and words[j] are special-equivalent if after any number of moves, words[i] == words[j].

A group of special-equivalent strings from words is a non-empty subset of words such that:

Return the number of groups of special-equivalent strings from words.

Groups of Special-Equivalent Strings diagram

Example 1

Input: words = ["abcd","cdab","cbad","xyzz","zzxy","zzyx"]

Output: 3

Explanation: One group is ["abcd", "cdab", "cbad"], since they are all pairwise special equivalent, and none of the other strings is all pairwise special equivalent to these. The other two groups are ["xyzz", "zzxy"] and ["zzyx"]. Note that in particular, "zzxy" is not special equivalent to "zzyx".

Example 2

Input: words = ["abc","acb","bac","bca","cab","cba"]

Output: 3

Constraints

  • 1 <= words.length <= 1000
  • 1 <= words[i].length <= 20
  • words[i] consist of lowercase English letters.
  • All the strings are of the same length.

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