Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

Snuke can change a string t of length N into a string t' of length N - 1 under the following rule:

For each i (1 ≤ i ≤ N - 1), the i-th character of t' must be either the i-th or (i + 1)-th character of t.

There is a string s consisting of lowercase English letters.
Snuke's objective is to apply the above operation to s repeatedly so that all the characters in s are the same.
Find the minimum necessary number of operations.

Constraints

1 ≤ |s| ≤ 100

s consists of lowercase English letters.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

s

Output

Print the minimum necessary number of operations to achieve the objective.

Sample Input 1

serval

Sample Output 1

3

One solution is: serval → srvvl → svvv → vvv.

Sample Input 2

jackal

Sample Output 2

2

One solution is: jackal → aacaa → aaaa.

Sample Input 3

zzz

Sample Output 3

0

All the characters in s are the same from the beginning.

Sample Input 4

whbrjpjyhsrywlqjxdbrbaomnw

Sample Output 4

8

In 8 operations, he can change s to rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Solution in Java8 (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;
import java.io.UncheckedIOException;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Built using CHelper plug-in
 * Actual solution is at the top
 *
 * @author mikit
 */
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        InputStream inputStream = System.in;
        OutputStream outputStream = System.out;
        LightScanner in = new LightScanner(inputStream);
        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outputStream);
        AShrinking solver = new AShrinking();
        solver.solve(1, in, out);
        out.close();
    }

    static class AShrinking {
        public void solve(int testNumber, LightScanner in, PrintWriter out) {
            String s = in.string();
            int[] n = new int[26];
            for (char c : s.toCharArray()) {
                n[c - 'a']++;
            }
            int min = 100000;
            for (char c = 'a'; c <= 'z'; c++) {
                String t = s;
                int ans = 0;
                while (t.chars().distinct().count() > 1) {
                    char[] ns = new char[t.length() - 1];
                    for (int i = 0; i < ns.length; i++) {
                        ns[i] = t.charAt(i) == c || t.charAt(i + 1) == c ? c : t.charAt(i);
                    }
                    t = String.valueOf(ns);
                    ans++;
                }
                min = Math.min(min, ans);
            }
            out.println(min);
        }

    }

    static class LightScanner {
        private BufferedReader reader = null;
        private StringTokenizer tokenizer = null;

        public LightScanner(InputStream in) {
            reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
        }

        public String string() {
            if (tokenizer == null || !tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
                try {
                    tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(reader.readLine());
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new UncheckedIOException(e);
                }
            }
            return tokenizer.nextToken();
        }

    }
}