Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

There are N cubes stacked vertically on a desk.

You are given a string S of length N. The color of the i-th cube from the bottom is red if the i-th character in S is 0, and blue if that character is 1.

You can perform the following operation any number of times: choose a red cube and a blue cube that are adjacent, and remove them. Here, the cubes that were stacked on the removed cubes will fall down onto the object below them.

At most how many cubes can be removed?

Constraints

1 \leq N \leq 10^5

|S| = N

Each character in S is 0 or 1.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

S

Output

Print the maximum number of cubes that can be removed.

Sample Input 1

0011

Sample Output 1

4

All four cubes can be removed, by performing the operation as follows:

Remove the second and third cubes from the bottom. Then, the fourth cube drops onto the first cube.

Remove the first and second cubes from the bottom.

Sample Input 2

11011010001011

Sample Output 2

12

Sample Input 3

0

Sample Output 3

0

Solution in Go (1.6) (judge verdict: Accepted)

package main

import (
	"bufio"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"os"
	"sort"
	"strconv"
)

func main() {
	s := readString()
	S := s

	pop := func(i int) {
		s = s[0:i] + s[i+1:]
	}

	i := 1
	for {
		if i == len(s) {
			break
		}
		if i > 0 && s[i-1] != s[i] {
			pop(i)
			pop(i - 1)
			i = i - 1
			continue
		}
		if i < len(s)-1 && s[i] != s[i+1] {
			pop(i + 1)
			pop(i)
			continue
		}
		i++
	}

	fmt.Println(len(S) - len(s))
}

/*-------------------utilities-------------------*/

func abs(x int) int {
	if x < 0 {
		return -x
	}
	return x
}

func min(x, y int) int {
	if x < y {
		return x
	}
	return y
}

func max(x, y int) int {
	if x > y {
		return x
	}
	return y
}

func chmin(x *int, y int) bool {
	if *x > y {
		*x = y
		return true
	}
	return false
}

func chmax(x *int, y int) bool {
	if *x < y {
		*x = y
		return true
	}
	return false
}

func gcd(a, b int) int {
	if b == 0 {
		return a
	}
	return gcd(b, a%b)
}

func lcm(a, b int) int {
	return (a * b) / gcd(a, b)
}

func comb(n, k int) int {
	if n < k {
		return 0
	}
	if n < 0 || k < 0 {
		return 0
	}
	return fac[n] * (finv[k] * finv[n-k] % MOD) % MOD
}

func permutations(arr []int) [][]int {
	var helper func([]int, int)
	res := [][]int{}

	helper = func(arr []int, n int) {
		if n == 1 {
			tmp := make([]int, len(arr))
			copy(tmp, arr)
			res = append(res, tmp)
		} else {
			for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
				helper(arr, n-1)
				if n%2 == 1 {
					tmp := arr[i]
					arr[i] = arr[n-1]
					arr[n-1] = tmp
				} else {
					tmp := arr[0]
					arr[0] = arr[n-1]
					arr[n-1] = tmp
				}
			}
		}
	}
	helper(arr, len(arr))
	return res
}

func isPrime(n int) bool {
	if n == 1 {
		return false
	}
	for i := 2; i*i <= n; i++ {
		if n%i == 0 {
			return false
		}
	}
	return true
}

func divisor(n int) (res []int) {
	for i := 1; i*i <= n; i++ {
		if n%i == 0 {
			res = append(res, i)
			if i*i != n {
				res = append(res, n/i)
			}
		}
	}
	sort.Ints(res)
	return
}

/*-------------------init-------------------*/

const (
	INF = 1000000000000000000
	MOD = 1e9 + 7

	COMB_MAX = 510000
)

var (
	readString func() string
)

var (
	fac  = [COMB_MAX]int{}
	finv = [COMB_MAX]int{}
	inv  = [COMB_MAX]int{}
)

func init() {
	readString = newReadString(os.Stdin)
}

func combInit() {
	fac[0] = 1
	fac[1] = 1
	finv[0] = 1
	finv[1] = 1
	inv[1] = 1
	for i := 2; i < COMB_MAX; i++ {
		fac[i] = fac[i-1] * i % MOD
		inv[i] = MOD - inv[MOD%i]*(MOD/i)%MOD
		finv[i] = finv[i-1] * inv[i] % MOD
	}
}

/*-------------------inputs-------------------*/

func readi() int {
	return int(readi64())
}

func readi64() int64 {
	i, err := strconv.ParseInt(readString(), 0, 64)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}
	return i
}

func readf() float64 {
	f, err := strconv.ParseFloat(readString(), 64)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}
	return f
}

func newReadString(ior io.Reader) func() string {
	r := bufio.NewScanner(ior)
	r.Buffer(make([]byte, 1024), int(1e+11))
	r.Split(bufio.ScanWords)

	return func() string {
		if !r.Scan() {
			panic("Scan failed")
		}
		return r.Text()
	}
}