Problem: Given is a string S. Let T be the concatenation of K copies of S. We can repeatedly perform the following operation: choose a character in T and replace it with a different character. Find the minimum number of operations required to satisfy the following condition: any two adjacent characters in T are different.

Submission attempts (in order):
s = input()
k = int(input())
m = 0
n = 0
j = 0
for i in range(len(s)):
    if s.count(s[0])==len(s):
        print(len(s)*k//2)
        exit()
    if len(s) <= j:
        break
    if s[j] == s[j - 1]:
        if j == 0:
            n += 1
            j += 1
        else:
            if len(s) > 2:
                m += 1
                j += 1
    j += 1
print(m * k + n * (k - 1))

s = input()
k = int(input())
m = 0
n = 0
j = 0
for i in range(len(s)):
    if s.count(s[0]) == len(s):
        print(len(s) * k // 2)
        exit()
    if len(s) <= j + 1:
        if s[0] == s[-1] and s[0]!=s[1]:
            n += 1
        break
    if s[j] == s[j + 1]:
        if j == len(s) - 1:
            n += 1
        else:
            m += 1
        j += 1
    j += 1
print(m * k + n * (k - 1))


s = input()
k = int(input())
m = 0
n = 0
j = 0
for i in range(len(s)):
    if s.count(s[0]) == len(s):
        print(len(s) * k // 2)
        exit()
    if len(s) <= j + 1:
        if s[0]==s[-1]:
            n+=1
        break
    if s[j] == s[j + 1]:
        if j == len(s) - 1:
            n += 1
        else:
            m += 1
        j += 1
    j += 1
print(m * k + n * (k - 1))


s = input()
k = int(input())
m = 0
n = 0
j = 0
for i in range(len(s)):
    if s.count(s[0]) == len(s):
        print(len(s) * k // 2)
        exit()
    if len(s) <= j + 1:
        break
    if s[j] == s[j + 1]:
        if j == len(s) - 1:
            n += 1
        else:
            m += 1
        j += 1
    j += 1
if s[0] == s[-1] and n==0:
    n += 1
print(m * k + n * (k - 1))


s = input()
k = int(input())
m = 0
n = 0
j = 0
for i in range(len(s)):
    if s.count(s[0]) == len(s):
        print(len(s) * k // 2)
        exit()
    if len(s) <= j + 1:
        print(s[0],s[-1])
        if s[0] == s[-1] and s[-1]!=s[-2] and s[0]!=s[1]:
            n += 1
        break
    if s[j] == s[j + 1]:
        if j == len(s) - 1:
            n += 1
        else:
            m += 1
        j += 1
    j += 1
print(m * k + n * (k - 1))


s = input()
k = int(input())
m = 0
n = 0
j = 0
for i in range(len(s)):
    if s.count(s[0]) == len(s):
        print(len(s) * k // 2)
        exit()
    if len(s) <= j + 1:
        if s[0]==s[j]:
            n+=1
        break
    if s[j] == s[j + 1]:
        if j == len(s) - 1:
            n += 1
        else:
            m += 1
        j += 1
    j += 1
print(m * k + n * (k - 1))


s = input()
k = int(input())
m = 0
n = 0
j = 0
for i in range(len(s)):
    if s.count(s[0]) == len(s):
        print(len(s) * k // 2)
        exit()
    if len(s) <= j + 1:
        if s[0] == s[-1]:
            n += 1
        break
    if s[j] == s[j + 1]:
        if j == len(s) - 1:
            n += 1
        else:
            m += 1
        j += 1
    j += 1
print(m * k + n * (k - 1))


s=input()
k=int(input())
m=0
j=0
if len(set(list(s)))==1:print((len(s)*k)//2);exit()
for i in range(len(s)):
 if len(s)<=j+1:
  if s[-1]==s[len(s)//3]:print(m*k+k-1)
  else:print(m*k)
  break
 if s[j]==s[j+1]:m+=1;j+=1
 j+=1

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