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Favourite Bigram

Difficulty: 1200 3000 ms 128 MB

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Print the most frequent two-character substring (bigram); ties break lexicographically.

Input: one line with a lowercase string of length ≥ 2.

Output: the winning bigram.

Constraints:

  • 2 ≤ |S| ≤ 105

Sample Tests

Input 1
ababab
Output 1
ab
Input 2
aabb
Output 2
aa

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