Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

There are N people standing in a row from west to east.
Each person is facing east or west.
The directions of the people is given as a string S of length N.
The i-th person from the west is facing east if S_i = E, and west if S_i = W.

You will appoint one of the N people as the leader, then command the rest of them to face in the direction of the leader.
Here, we do not care which direction the leader is facing.

The people in the row hate to change their directions, so you would like to select the leader so that the number of people who have to change their directions is minimized.
Find the minimum number of people who have to change their directions.

Constraints

2 \leq N \leq 3 \times 10^5

|S| = N

S_i is E or W.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N
S

Output

Print the minimum number of people who have to change their directions.

Sample Input 1

5
WEEWW

Sample Output 1

1

Assume that we appoint the third person from the west as the leader.
Then, the first person from the west needs to face east and has to turn around.
The other people do not need to change their directions, so the number of people who have to change their directions is 1 in this case.
It is not possible to have 0 people who have to change their directions, so the answer is 1.

Sample Input 2

12
WEWEWEEEWWWE

Sample Output 2

4

Sample Input 3

8
WWWWWEEE

Sample Output 3

3

Solution in C# (Mono 4.6.2.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using static kyoupuro.Input;
using static kyoupuro.MyMath;

namespace kyoupuro {

    class MainClass {

        public static void Main() {
            var N = NextInt;
            var S = "A" + Line;
            var e = S.Select(c => Convert.ToInt32(c == 'E')).ToList();
            var w = S.Select(c => Convert.ToInt32(c == 'W')).ToList();
            for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
                e[i + 1] += e[i];
                w[i + 1] += w[i];
            }
            var list = e.Zip(w, (a, b) => a - b).ToList();
            var max = list.Skip(1).Max();
            var id = Enumerable.Range(1, N).First(x => list[x] == max);

            Console.WriteLine(
                e[N] - e[id] + w[id - 1]
            );
        }
    }

    class MyMath {
        public const long mod = 1000000007;

        public static long Gcd(long a, long b) {
            return b == 0 ? a : Gcd(b, a % b);
        }

        public static long Sqrt(long n) {
            if (n < 0) return 0;
            long a = 0, tmp = 0, b = 0;
            for (int i = 62; i >= 0; i -= 2) {
                tmp = (b << 1) + 1 <= (n >> i) ? 1 : 0;
                a = a << 1 | tmp;
                n -= (((b << 1) + 1) * tmp) << i;
                b = (b << 1) + tmp + tmp;
            }
            return a;
        }

        public static long Factorial(int n) {
            if (n == 0)
                return 1L;
            return n * Factorial(n - 1);
        }
    }

    public class PriorityQueue<T> {

        readonly List<T> _heap = new List<T>();
        readonly Comparison<T> _comparison;

        public PriorityQueue(Comparison<T> comparison) {
            _comparison = comparison;
        }

        public PriorityQueue() : this(Comparer<T>.Default.Compare) { }

        public PriorityQueue(IComparer<T> comparer) : this(comparer.Compare) { }

        public void Enqueue(T item) {
            _heap.Add(item);

            int childID = _heap.Count - 1;
            int parentID = (childID - 1) / 2;

            while (childID > 0 && _comparison(_heap[parentID], _heap[childID]) > 0) {
                Swap(parentID, childID);
                childID = parentID;
                parentID = (parentID - 1) / 2;
            }
        }

        public T Dequeue() {
            var first = _heap.First();
            _heap[0] = _heap.Last();
            _heap.RemoveAt(_heap.Count - 1);

            int parentID = 0;
            int childID = parentID * 2 + 2;
            if (childID >= _heap.Count || _comparison(_heap[childID], _heap[childID - 1]) > 0) childID--;

            while (childID < _heap.Count && _comparison(_heap[parentID], _heap[childID]) > 0) {
                Swap(parentID, childID);
                parentID = childID;
                childID = parentID * 2 + 2;
                if (childID >= _heap.Count || _comparison(_heap[childID], _heap[childID - 1]) > 0) childID--;
            }

            return first;
        }

        void Swap(int parent, int child) {
            var tmp = _heap[parent];
            _heap[parent] = _heap[child];
            _heap[child] = tmp;
        }

        public T Peek() { return _heap[0]; }
        public int Count => _heap.Count;
        public bool Any() { return _heap.Any(); }
        public List<T> Data => _heap;
    }

    public class UnionFind {
        public int[] Parents { get; set; }
        public UnionFind(int size) {
            Parents = Enumerable.Repeat(-1, size).ToArray();
        }

        public int Find(int num) {
            if (Parents[num] < 0) return num;

            Parents[num] = Find(Parents[num]);
            return Parents[num];
        }

        public int Size(int num) {
            return -Parents[Find(num)];
        }

        public bool Same(int a, int b) {
            return Find(a) == Find(b);
        }

        public void Unite(int a, int b) {
            int x = Find(a), y = Find(b);

            if (Size(x) > Size(y)) {
                Parents[x] += Parents[y];
                Parents[y] = x;
            } else {
                Parents[y] += Parents[x];
                Parents[x] = y;
            }
        }
    }

    class Input {
        static IEnumerator<string> enumerator = new string[] { }.AsEnumerable().GetEnumerator();

        public static string Line => Console.ReadLine();

        public static string[] StrArr => Line.Split(' ');

        public static int NextInt => int.Parse(NextWord());

        public static long NextLong => long.Parse(NextWord());

        public static List<int> IntList => StrArr.Select(int.Parse).ToList();

        public static List<long> LongList => StrArr.Select(long.Parse).ToList();

        public static string NextWord() {
            while (!enumerator.MoveNext()) {
                enumerator = StrArr.AsEnumerable().GetEnumerator();
            }
            return enumerator.Current;
        }
    }
}