<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 solve(self, s, freq, max_f, mp):
        if len(s) == 0:
            return 0
        
        if s in mp:
            return mp[s]
        
        ans = float('inf')
        for i in range(len(s)):
            idx = ord(s[i]) - ord('a')
            freq[idx] += 1
            
            if freq[idx] > max_f:
                max_f = freq[idx]
            
            possible = all(freq[i] == 0 or freq[i] == max_f for i in range(26))
            
            if possible:
                sub = [0] * 26
                ans = min(ans, 1 + self.solve(s[i+1:], sub, -1, mp))
        
        mp[s] = ans
        return ans
    
    def minimumSubstringsInPartition(self, s: str) -> int:
        freq = [0] * 26
        mp = {}
        ans = self.solve(s, freq, -1, mp)
        
        return 0 if ans >= float('inf') else ans
        
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