<p>Given a string <code>s</code>, you need to partition it into one or more <strong>balanced</strong> <span data-keyword="substring">substrings</span>. For example, if <code>s == &quot;ababcc&quot;</code> then <code>(&quot;abab&quot;, &quot;c&quot;, &quot;c&quot;)</code>, <code>(&quot;ab&quot;, &quot;abc&quot;, &quot;c&quot;)</code>, and <code>(&quot;ababcc&quot;)</code> are all valid partitions, but <code>(&quot;a&quot;, <strong>&quot;bab&quot;</strong>, &quot;cc&quot;)</code>, <code>(<strong>&quot;aba&quot;</strong>, &quot;bc&quot;, &quot;c&quot;)</code>, and <code>(&quot;ab&quot;, <strong>&quot;abcc&quot;</strong>)</code> are not. The unbalanced substrings are bolded.</p>

<p>Return the <strong>minimum</strong> number of substrings that you can partition <code>s</code> into.</p>

<p><strong>Note:</strong> A <strong>balanced</strong> string is a string where each character in the string occurs the same number of times.</p>

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<p><strong class="example">Example 1:</strong></p>

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<p><strong>Input:</strong> <span class="example-io">s = &quot;fabccddg&quot;</span></p>

<p><strong>Output:</strong> <span class="example-io">3</span></p>

<p><strong>Explanation:</strong></p>

<p>We can partition the string <code>s</code> into 3 substrings in one of the following ways: <code>(&quot;fab, &quot;ccdd&quot;, &quot;g&quot;)</code>, or <code>(&quot;fabc&quot;, &quot;cd&quot;, &quot;dg&quot;)</code>.</p>
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<p><strong class="example">Example 2:</strong></p>

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<p><strong>Input:</strong> <span class="example-io">s = &quot;abababaccddb&quot;</span></p>

<p><strong>Output:</strong> <span class="example-io">2</span></p>

<p><strong>Explanation:</strong></p>

<p>We can partition the string <code>s</code> into 2 substrings like so: <code>(&quot;abab&quot;, &quot;abaccddb&quot;)</code>.</p>
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<p><strong>Constraints:</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li><code>1 &lt;= s.length &lt;= 1000</code></li>
	<li><code>s</code> consists only of English lowercase letters.</li>
</ul>

class Solution:
    def minimumSubstringsInPartition(self, s: str) -> int:
        # iterate over s, 
        # once found a balance string, partition -> dp -> dp result +1
        # take the minimum
        
        n = len(s)
        dpRecord = [-1] * n
        
        def dp(startIndex):
            if startIndex == n: return 0
            if dpRecord[startIndex]!=-1: return dpRecord[startIndex]
            
            counter = defaultdict(int)
            currMaxCount = 0
            currGoodCharCount = 0
            minCnt = n
            for i in range(startIndex, n):
                c = s[i]
                counter[c] +=1
                if currMaxCount == counter[c]:
                    currGoodCharCount += 1
                elif counter[c] > currMaxCount:
                    currGoodCharCount = 1
                    currMaxCount = counter[c]
                    
                if currGoodCharCount == len(counter):
                    # found balance string
                    # print(startIndex, "foudn balance string ending at i:{}".format(i))
                    dpCnt = dp(i+1) + 1
                    minCnt = min(minCnt, dpCnt)
            dpRecord[startIndex] = minCnt
            return minCnt
        
        return dp(0)          
        
        
                    
                    
                    
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