#include<bits/stdc++.h>
#define rep(i,a,b) for(int i=a;i<b;i++)
using namespace std; void _main(); int main() { cin.tie(0); ios::sync_with_stdio(false); _main(); }
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template<int MOD> struct ModInt {
    static const int Mod = MOD; unsigned x; ModInt() : x(0) { }
    ModInt(signed sig) { x = sig < 0 ? sig % MOD + MOD : sig % MOD; }
    ModInt(signed long long sig) { x = sig < 0 ? sig % MOD + MOD : sig % MOD; }
    int get() const { return (int)x; }
    ModInt &operator+=(ModInt that) { if ((x += that.x) >= MOD) x -= MOD; return *this; }
    ModInt &operator-=(ModInt that) { if ((x += MOD - that.x) >= MOD) x -= MOD; return *this; }
    ModInt &operator*=(ModInt that) { x = (unsigned long long)x * that.x % MOD; return *this; }
    ModInt &operator/=(ModInt that) { return *this *= that.inverse(); }
    ModInt operator+(ModInt that) const { return ModInt(*this) += that; }
    ModInt operator-(ModInt that) const { return ModInt(*this) -= that; }
    ModInt operator*(ModInt that) const { return ModInt(*this) *= that; }
    ModInt operator/(ModInt that) const { return ModInt(*this) /= that; }
    ModInt inverse() const { long long a = x, b = MOD, u = 1, v = 0;
        while (b) { long long t = a / b; a -= t * b; std::swap(a, b); u -= t * v; std::swap(u, v); }
        return ModInt(u); }
    bool operator==(ModInt that) const { return x == that.x; }
    bool operator!=(ModInt that) const { return x != that.x; }
    ModInt operator-() const { ModInt t; t.x = x == 0 ? 0 : Mod - x; return t; }
};
template<int MOD> ModInt<MOD> operator^(ModInt<MOD> a, unsigned long long k) {
    ModInt<MOD> r = 1; while (k) { if (k & 1) r *= a; a *= a; k >>= 1; } return r; }
template<typename T, int FAC_MAX> struct Comb { vector<T> fac, ifac;
    Comb() {fac.resize(FAC_MAX, 1); ifac.resize(FAC_MAX, 1);rep(i, 1, FAC_MAX) fac[i] = fac[i - 1] * i;
        rep(i, 1, FAC_MAX) ifac[i] = T(1) / fac[i];}
    T aPb(int a, int b) { if (b < 0 || a < b) return 0; return fac[a] * ifac[a - b]; }
    T aCb(int a, int b) { if (b < 0 || a < b) return 0; return fac[a] * ifac[a - b] * ifac[b]; }
    T nHk(int n, int k) { if (n == 0 && k == 0) return 1; if (n <= 0 || k < 0) return 0;
        return aCb(n + k - 1, k); }
};
typedef ModInt<1000000007> mint;
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string S;
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void _main() {
    cin >> S;

    int ans = 1010;
    rep(i, 0, 26) {
        char c('a' + i);

        vector<int> id;
        rep(j, 0, S.length()) if (S[j] == c) id.push_back(j);
        if (id.size() == 0) continue;

        int ma = 0;
        rep(j, 0, id.size() - 1) {
            int a = id[j];
            int b = id[j + 1];
            ma = max(ma, (b - a - 1));
        }
        ma = max(ma, id.front());
        ma = max(ma, (int)S.length() - id.back() - 1);

        ans = min(ans, ma);
    }
    cout << ans << endl;
}

Measured memory_bytes: 256