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Alice and Bob are playing a game. Initially, Alice has a string word = "a"
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You are given a positive integer k
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Now Bob will ask Alice to perform the following operation forever:
\n\nword
to its next character in the English alphabet, and append it to the original word
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Return the value of the kth
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Note that the character 'z'
can be changed to 'a'
in the operation.
\n
Example 1:
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.Example 2:
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Constraints:
\n\n1 <= k <= 500
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